A powerful DNA database helped crack a 30-year-old cold case. Experts say CODIS is transforming investigations and solving crimes once thought unsolvable.

Stepping away from its billions-of-years-old role as a genetic blueprint, DNA is now embarking on a new journey as an active field agent within cells. This research by a team led by Professor Jongmin Kim and Ph.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising secret about our DNA: it’s not a static blueprint, but a constantly shifting, folding structure that helps control how genes turn on and off. Researchers at the Salk Institute found that different parts of the genome loop and unloop at different speeds,

More than 60 years after its discovery, scientists are still learning surprising ways DNA stores and translates instructions for life.

Before a cell can divide, it has to precisely duplicate its entire genetic information. However, the DNA in the cell exists as part of a DNA-protein complex known as chromatin. For this purpose, the DNA is wrapped around a core of histone proteins and tightly packed into so-called nucleosomes.

Humboldt County authorities have successfully identified the remains of two men, Charles Marrs and Gregory Hugh Oliver, who had been missing for decades.

The judge is to send his report by tomorrow to the Florida Supreme Court, which had stayed James Duckett’s execution.

DNA study reveals Neanderthals who lived 10,000 years apart in Siberia were closely related, offering new insight into their evolution.