The DNA tissue sample taken from a baby left in an Iowa City landfill in 1992 was so "degraded and contaminated" that ...

June Wang, a Weill Cornell Medicine lab technician, views a sample of human sperm. She's preparing to try to edit the DNA in the sample with a gene-editing technique called CRISPR. (Elias Williams for ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Future generations could be stripped of mutations like hereditary blindness or maternal diabetes, after a breakthrough study at Oregon Health & Science University. But the new ...

The Texas DPS recognized its Crime Laboratory Division during National Forensic Science Week, highlighting the work of its 16 ...

Carle Place High School students in Ms. Jeannine Hengevel’s Advanced Placement Biology class recently visited the Cold Spring Harbor DNA Laboratory to further their scientific studies. The students ...

DNA evidence, with its high-tech luster, often grabs all the headlines. But latent prints, that old-fashioned staple of forensic science, are still a cornerstone of criminal investigations.

Before a cell divides, its DNA is replicated so that each daughter cell inherits the same genetic information. The two copies ...

The lab working on identifying 9/11 victims, more than two decades after the horrific tragedy, have explained why tragically ...

Penny Gunn, above, was identified by Texas DNA lab Othram nearly 27 years after her death in Collin County’s Lake Ray Hubbard ...

First it was human embryos. Now scientists are trying to develop another way to modify human DNA that can be passed on to future generations, NPR has learned. Reproductive biologists at Weill Cornell ...