It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Ashlee Buzzard was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree murder in her daughter's killing, which a criminal ...

A 71-year-old Toledo man and his 33-year-old son have reunited after decades apart, thanks to a DNA test that connected them ...

Human remains found by a family dog in Alabama on four separate occasions were finally identified as belonging to a man who ...

The multi-state hunt for Melodee Buzzard, a missing 9-year-old California girl, came to a close when her remains were ...

John was abandoned as a newborn and grew up with no knowledge of where he came from. Then one Christmas that changed.

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Ana Walshe’s remains have never been found. But a clue as to what may have happened to the 39-year-old woman came in the form of DNA samples pulled from items found in a Swampscott dumpster — ...

When scientists recently unearthed ancient skeletons in Colombia, DNA tests should’ve linked them to someone—anyone—alive today. Instead, they found a lineage with no clear connection to the rest of ...

It's a major discovery of the 21st century: knowing the structure of DNA has revolutionized our knowledge of life, medicine and science as a whole. In this TED Talk, Nobel Laureate James Watson ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible through technological advances in the way DNA is extracted from ancient bones ...