Work has begun on a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life from scratch, in what is believed to be a world first. The research has been taboo until now because of concerns ...

Scientists trace Leonardo da Vinci's DNA through his descendants and family tombs to reconstruct his genetic code.

Mary Alice Maloney was a 40-year-old Connecticut native who was living in Nashville at the time of her death in 2007. La ...

The Jane Doe has been identified nearly 20 years later through the DNA Doe Project The woman was identified as Mary Alice ...

An open-source genetic information repository that has subsisted on crowdsourced contributions will shut down next month, partially to protect its user base from the threat of rising authoritarianism, ...

WE BEGIN AT NOON WITH BREAKING NEWS. THE SPARTANBURG COUNTY CORONER’S OFFICE HAS IDENTIFIED SKELETAL REMAINS THAT WERE FOUND IN 2011. CAITLIN ASH WAS AT THE CORONER’S OFFICE WITH THE LATEST. CAITLIN.

A family with ties to Connecticut is now one step closer to having closure, thanks to a non-profit that works to provide ...

Maloney, a Hartford native, was living in the Nashville area prior to her disappearance. Her remains went unidentified for 18 ...

RAVENNA — Quickly herded from one station to another Wednesday, students at Ravenna Public Schools were swabbed, fingerprinted and photographed. The police were present, but it wasn't because anyone ...

James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and provided the foundation ...

Researchers have analyzed a sample of DNA believed to belong to Adolf Hitler, which they say reveals the dictator of Nazi Germany had a genetic marker for a rare disorder that can delay puberty, ...

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. He wrote a celebrated memoir and later ignited an uproar with racist ...