New DNA analysis rules out the possibility that Kaspar Hauser was a “lost prince” kidnapped as a child nearly two centuries ...

A United States-based Nigerian lawyer, Emmanuel Ogebe, who assisted in the release of a death row inmate, Emmanuel Ihejirika, ...

Findings suggest that new genes can form by repurposing fragments of ancestral genes while incorporating entirely new coding regions (the protein-coding parts of the DNA). This innovative concept ...

DNA was a key factor in recent updates in the 24-year-old case of missing Cleveland County girl Asha Degree. Search warrants ...

DNA testing will begin on Monday to identify the bodies of children who died in a fire at a Kenyan boarding school, local authorities have said. At least 21 children, with an average age of nine ...

The United Nations children’s agency has said that a polio vaccination campaign to inoculate more than 640,000 children in Gaza is surpassing expectations at the end of the first phase of the ...

The lead authors—forensic scientists Dr. Duncan Taylor and Dr. Mariya Goray—say that substantial improvements in the sensitivity of forensic DNA techniques now allow for very small traces of ...

The United States indicts two employees of Russia's RT news and imposes sanctions on top editors of the state-funded news outlet, accusing them of seeking to influence the 2024 US presidential ...

A team of experts has proposed storing the DNA of threatened animals in a vault on the lunar surface – Earth's only natural satellite – where conditions are cold enough to preserve the samples.