Bethany Oeming has often fielded questions from people wondering what the secret was to her muscular body. At 36, when she ...

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...

At a time when there is an estimated backlog of 225,000 rape kits in the U.S., authorities in Indiana arrested the suspect in ...

A judge on Thursday sentenced a Florida man to 25 years in prison in a 1987 rape and abduction at a Woodbridge gas station -- ...

The articles show how innovative DNA technology solves cold cases after decades. Investigators use genetic genealogy and national DNA databases to connect suspects or identify victims. New DNA methods ...

Scientists discovered that certain gene changes allow cells to function even when frataxin, the protein lost in Friedreich’s ...

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers this week introduced bills that would require U.S. firms to obtain a license before exporting sequences of synthetic DNA.

The microscopic organisms that fill our bodies, soils, oceans and atmosphere play essential roles in human health and the ...

"Exposure to radiation breaks up the pigments in the bacteria, while similar exposure to radiation in humans breaks our DNA," ...

The companies offering these screens “started out with 100 genes, and now some of them go up to 2,000,” Sara Levene, genetics ...

On Thursday, the 1983 rape conviction of Richard Luna was vacated after recent DNA testing of evidence collected at the ...

New DNA testing from a sexual assault kit helped reveal that a man was wrongly convicted of rape over 40 years ago in Ventura ...