In 2018, a rape kit that had gone untested for a decade linked Dane Mullen to the brutal assault of a college student on the banks of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota. Though delayed, justice was ...

In recent years, police have increasingly used data from ancestry-testing companies to identify major crime suspects through the DNA of their family members. A new case, however, is reigniting the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - For many years, scientists have been extracting DNA from the bones of ancient humans, humanoids and animals to paint a picture of evolution and species movement. Despite what’s ...

Toward the end of the Ice Age, a man and child were laid to rest under a rock ledge on the Brazos River. They were placed in the fetal position and lavished with goods for a happy afterlife: red ochre ...

Both tried-and-true and new assays are helping labs to assess methylation at particular loci and from single cells. The sequence of DNA bases is not the only information in a genome; there is hidden ...