Research institutions around the world house valuable genetic information that could help unlock countless medical mysteries.

After a more than $5,000 donation from the Arkansas AG's office, a DNA testing company is working to identify remains dubbed ...

Chico State broke ground today on its new Human Identification Laboratory, a project that has been developing for about two years.

Certain serious fungal infections occur in regions of the United States with specific environments and are often tied to soil ...

Some 39,000 years ago, a woolly mammoth died in present-day Siberia, destined to be blanketed by ice and permafrost that ...

Research institutions around the world house valuable genetic information that could help unlock countless medical mysteries. However, because DNA degrades over time, it is difficult for researchers ...

By adapting techniques originally used to study ancient DNA from archaeological specimens, researchers at the University of Chicago were able to recover genetic information from nearly century-old ...

The Alaska Scientific Crime Detection Lab acquired a forensic tool used to test DNA from bones and teeth this summer.

A pig kidney with one genetic change functioned in a brain-dead human for 61 days, more than doubling previous records.

In our new research, we linked DNA markers with known tooth ages of dead dolphins to build the first molecular "epigenetic ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a wooly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...