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

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

After recent DNA testing raised questions, a Montgomery man who Alabama has kept on a death row for 31 years will get another shot at justice. A federal judge has ordered a new trial in the 1992 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists are trying to sequence the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci to identify if the remains at his interment site really are his. The project began ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, led by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the Neanderthal ...

Investigators have linked yet another murder to a notorious California serial killer nearly 45 years after a man’s body was found along an Oregon highway. The body of 30-year-old Larry Eugene Parks ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient humans undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of miles of ice over the Bering Strait to the unknown world of the Americas. Now, a new study led by the ...

While the search for a Washington father accused of killing his three young daughters in June continues, DNA testing has confirmed he is the only suspect in the murders, police said. DNA matching ...

CHELAN COUNTY, Wash. — Officials in Chelan County provided an update on the investigation into the killings of three young girls as the prime suspect remains on the run. Travis Decker is accused of ...

Lily Wood is forty-three years old but considers April 9, 2019, to be her “rebirth day.” That was the date she received her results from Ancestry, the direct-to-consumer DNA-testing company. A ...

Two unrelated young people buried in cemeteries in England in the Early Middle Ages probably had grandparents from West Africa. How and when their relatives arrived in Britain is unknown, but the ...

Large B-cell lymphomas (LBCL) are curable, but patients with residual disease after therapy invariably experience progression. Ultrasensitive methods to detect circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) as minimal ...