When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Around the world, DNA analysis is the gold standard for identifying human remains following these ...

Emerging methods are improving the ability to identify even highly degraded human remains. By Damien Cave Reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam The world is facing an abundance of tragic events that produce ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old environment in Greenland. | Credit: ...

The Hennepin County Forensics Science Lab is crucial in helping investigators solve crimes. "We do prioritize violent crimes first," said Hanna Sczepanski, a DNA Analyst. When evidence is collected at ...

It's a mystery that has left experts scratching their heads for decades, but just how did humans make their way from Europe to North America? After years of uncertainty, a new discovery might just ...

On Thursday, a team of researchers led by Microsoft announced that they had discovered, and possibly patched, what they’re terming a biological zero-day—an unrecognized security hole in a system that ...

Scientists are now working on something once thought impossible — creating human DNA entirely from scratch using chemicals, not parents. This synthetic DNA, or synDNA, could unlock powerful treatments ...

People of this lineage lived near present-day Bogotá around 6,000 years ago but disappeared around 4,000 years later, according to a study published May 28 in the journal Science Advances. The ...