Two New York men imprisoned as teenagers have been exonerated in a 1994 killing. A judge scrapped Brian Boles and Charles ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven ...

DNA is the building block of life — it can tell us a lot about both who we are, and who we may become. DNA is also, ...

When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual ...

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

My wife “Sandra” and her siblings recently decided to take one of those Ancestry DNA tests for the purpose of starting a ...

Genomic data sheds light on how populations of sledge dogs — and their human handlers — have shifted over past 800 years.

A groundbreaking discovery has revealed the complete genome of a man who lived in Ancient Egypt over 4,500 years ago, during ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

Creating genomes from DNA is hugely important for managing threatened species—understanding their past and how they have ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...