Tiny, quivering spheres designed to feed and multiply raise prospect of artificial organisms to make drugs, food and fuel Researchers claim they are closer to creating life from scratch after building ...

DNA evidence has linked Marvin Lee Holloway to the May 27, 1986, sexual assault and capital murder of Ruby Battee in her Dallas home. Holloway is already serving a life sentence in a Texas prison for ...

Damaged DNA can escape from one human cell and infiltrate another. Like prisoners tunneling out of jail, this DNA travels via tubelike structures between neighboring cells, scientists report May 19 in ...

Researchers have identified the remains of four members of a doomed 19th century expedition in the Arctic by matching DNA to the sailors’ living descendants — and solved a case of mistaken identity ...

Every individual has their own unique genetic profile. We each have inherited about 3 billion base pairs of DNA (deoxyribose nucleic acid) from both our mother and our father. Therefore, we have a ...

Humans are closely related to chimpanzees and bonobos, but what are the key factors that make humans genetically different? A new study looks at the process of DNA methylation, in which chemical tags ...

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers stumbled upon a bizarre genetic code in a microscopic pond organism.

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On June 12, 1984, 15-year-old Kelly Morrissey vanished into the night. She left her home after dinner and never came back. Five months later, it was her friend Theresa Fusco. On Nov. 10, 1984, the ...

In the never-ending battle between bacteria and viruses, both sides devise devious strategies to thwart the other. In a new study, scientists analyzed one such strategy used by the bacterium ...

The U.S. life sciences industry entered 2026 with surprising momentum, following threats of tariffs and disrupted trade, NIH funding cuts, and a sluggish IPO market. Accounting for more than ...

This study presents an important new method for probing the DNA and proteins associated with targeted chromatin domains in cells. The authors present solid evidence that the method can map DNA-DNA ...