By expanding federal agents' authority to collect the DNA of immigrant detainees, the government has risked violating ...

Investigators and victims’ families say they feel they are being denied information that could further the Yogurt Shop Murder ...

The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland. Will scientists eventually sequence even older DNA?

The Yogurt Shop Murders have left Austin scarred for more than 30 years. Four teenage girls named Eliza Thomas, Jennifer Harbison, Sarah Harbison, and Amy Ayers were brutally killed inside an "I Can't ...

The Federal Constitutional Court has cancelled a court order to store DNA data due to insufficient risk prognosis and ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - A judge in Maricopa County has thrown out the DNA sample that led to the arrest of a man accused of killing a Scottsdale woman in 2015. The murder of Allison Feldman confounded ...

Nearly 12 years after the initial report, a man in Wisconsin has been arrested for alleged sexual assault after a DNA sample ...

Scientists analyzed data from more than one million users of 23andMe and found associations between certain genes and stuttering ...

The best home DNA kits are more popular than ever, giving us a window into our ancestry, genetic traits, and overall health. They can trace family roots, reveal inherited characteristics, and even ...

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.