In a French criminal trial, conventional DNA analysis couldn’t distinguish between twin brothers, but emerging scientific ...

DNA synthesis is vital to several processes in biopharmaceutical innovation, including the development of gene therapies, CRISPR gene editing, antisense oligonucleotides and RNA therapies. The need ...

Wildlife populations that become small and isolated, often due to habitat loss, inevitably experience inbreeding which can lead to the loss of fitness and eventual extinction. One solution is to ...

Genome editing-based therapies typically aim to treat disease by correcting underlying genetic mutations in patient's cells.

Around the world, scientists are exploring an unexpected solution to the growing data crisis: storing digital information in ...

The Pima County Sheriff's Department is using investigative genetic genealogy to analyze DNA evidence in Nancy Guthrie's case. The department has resorted to this method, which combines ancestry and ...

On Christmas Day in 2017, a human skull was discovered by a snorkeller at a remote beach near Wilsons Prom on Victoria’s south Gippsland coast. Below the water, police soon found an almost intact ...