This year, gene-editing technology was customized to fix mutations in a single patient’s genes for the first time.

Cornell researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move within and bind to the genome. Transposons play critical roles in immune response, ...

Discover how scientists are harnessing the power of CRISPR to precisely edit DNA, revolutionizing medicine and ethics as they rewrite the very code of life. Pixabay, PublicDomainPictures CRISPR ...

Local investigators working with cutting-edge technology and a Texas-based company are solving decades-old murders, identifying unknown remains and bringing closure to families who never expected ...

BUCKSNORT, Tenn. (WTVF) — A devastating explosion at an ammunition processing plant in Bucksnort has claimed 16 lives. Investigators are using new rapid DNA technology to identify victims at an ...

Authorities in Austin, Texas say DNA technology helped them identify a suspect in the gruesome murder of four teenage girls in a yogurt shop nearly 34 years ago. Donald Trump issues new threat to ...

Austin cold case investigators used new DNA technology to match samples with other cases. The man believed to have committed the Yogurt Shop Murders 34 years ago was discovered through DNA and ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — After 30 years, Austin city leaders announced the infamous yogurt shop murders had been solved. Austin Police Chief of Police Lisa Davis said, “advances in science and technology” ...

Old-fashioned detective work and advances in forensic science led to the identification of a suspect in the killings of four teenagers in Austin, Texas, in 1991, officials said. By Christine Hauser ...

A court ruling earlier this week allowing cutting-edge DNA evidence in the trial of alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann could crack open many vexing cold cases on Long Island and across ...

Riverhead, New York — Evidence derived from cutting-edge DNA technology that prosecutors say points directly at Rex Heuermann being the Gilgo Beach serial killer will be admissible at his trial, a ...