Before a cell divides, its DNA is replicated so that each daughter cell inherits the same genetic information. The two copies ...

The fish that limbed vertebrates evolved from don't have obvious digit equivalents, and the most common types of fish just ...

Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in ...

Marion McWhorter went missing in Oregon in 1974. Now, remains found two years later have been identified as her, through DNA ...

Marion McWhorter went missing in Oregon in 1974. Now, remains found two years later have been identified as her, through DNA ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Valerie Nagle spent decades wondering what happened to her older sister who was last seen in Oregon in 1974.

Volcanic eruptions on the remote island of Nishinoshima repeatedly wipe the land clean, giving scientists a rare chance to ...

In a major step toward treating rare neurological diseases, scientists have used gene editing to correct mutations inside the ...

According to a recent international study, fragments of ancient viral DNA once considered "junk" may in fact play a role in ...

Detectives Tara Augustin and Alyson Dupouy investigated the 2001 murder of Leslie Preer, who was killed in her home in a ...

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool to help scientists better plan gene-editing ...

Does heart disease or cancer run in your family? MUSC researchers have created a program to identify whether you’re at an ...