I enrolled in Human Longevity's executive health program. My cancer results were reassuring, but my genetic results left me a ...

It’s a bit like giving the soil a DNA test.” A new droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method quantifies root DNA directly from soil ...

That’s the thing about DNA. Most people think it helps us find ancestors, and sometimes it does. More often, it helps us find ...

South Carolina prosecutors oppose Alex Murdaugh's push for independent DNA testing of evidence found under Maggie Murdaugh's ...

Alex Murdaugh got a new court date for his murder retrial, and the public learned a little more about the judge who will be ...

The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed new portable field devices that will allow soldiers to identify unknown ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.

A new collaborative effort is underway to modernize and expedite forensic DNA testing for Shelby County criminal cases.

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...

The nationwide rollout, which Labcorp disclosed Monday, comes weeks after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved coverage for ColoSense, and the American Cancer Society named the test ...

A man convicted of murder in 2007 will get a chance to convince a judge to order new DNA testing he believes could show he ...

Silver nanoparticles provide a more efficient way to cut and assemble DNA, improving recovery rates and boosting DNA joining ...