A 2007 home invasion and sexual assault case was solved nearly 20 years later using advanced DNA genealogy, authorities say.

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

Deputies in Lake County said a man has been arrested 18 years after a violent sexual attack. Larry Franklin Tucker Jr. was ...

The goal of gene therapy is to permanently cure hereditary diseases. One of the most promising technologies for this is the ...

What happens when you squeeze DNA? Can pressure reveal something about how our genetic material is packed, protected, and ...

The Broad Institute gene-sequencing lab used Roche equipment to read infants’ DNA genomes in less than four hours, cutting an ...

Police in San Bruno have identified the parents of a deceased infant whose body was discovered in a city park more than four ...

Molecular biologist Dr. Max Rempel claims to have found strands of alien genes that he says may have been "inserted" into human DNA. He also says this ...

A mitochondrial DNA study points to at least two waves of migration linking the Americas, China, and Japan- one during the ...

There’s 99.9% similarity across human genomes, with the remaining 0.1% variation being what makes each person unique.1 In ...

A new computational tool developed by researchers has uncovered genetic evidence directly linking Alzheimer’s disease to the ...