A new gene-editing technique enables the correction of multiple genetic mutations simultaneously, transforming the prospects ...

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...

Nobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson, one of the co-discoverers of the DNA structure, has passed away at the ...

The breakthrough did not come until 1953, when Watson visited Wilkins at King’s College in London, and Wilkins showed him a ...

A proposed change to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule could impose “biological sex” DNA testing on millions of immigrants and Americans as part of the Department’s mass biometric ...

A judge ruled that DNA evidence is admissible in the case of a man charged with killing UGA law school student Tara Baker.

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...

Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died.

Texas investigators identified a Bastrop County serial rapist through DNA testing, solving assaults from 1997 to 2005 after ...

The Trump administration proposes a broad expansion of the US biometric data collection programme, now including DNA from ...

Summer McKesson struggled to breathe for years. Doctors told her it was because her blood would not stop clotting – and they ...