Across two new papers published Wednesday (July 23) in the journal Nature, scientists sequenced the DNA of 1,084 people ...

Approximately one in 5,000 children is born with mitochondrial mutations each year. Defective mitochondria "leave the body ...

Scientists have twisted DNA into programmable nanostructures that form themselves — and could reshape future materials for light, sound, and electronics.

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead ...

Controversial World-First Project To Create Human DNA From Scratch Takes First Steps The massive project will likely take decades to complete, but it has significant oversight built into it to ...

The Supreme Court released decisions Thursday on Planned Parenthood, DNA testing and the First Step Act geared towards bringing down certain prison sentences for nonviolent drug crimes. Here & Now ...

An 80-year-old man on his way to work mistakenly drove his Mercedes-Benz sedan down Rome's famous Spanish Steps.

Police in Rome said the driver in his 80s was at a loss to explain how he had wound up driving down the famed Spanish Steps.

Crime DA says DNA evidence has solved 45-year-old Ayer murder Investigators say an Ogunquit man was responsible for the gruesome 1980 murder of Katharina Reitz Brow.

Not all DNA looks like the familiar twisted ladder. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes. One such structure, the G-quadruplex (G4), looks like a knot.