Enhancers are pieces of DNA that act like switches, regulating when genes are turned on and off and how strongly they are ...

New structural variation sequencing reads long stretches of fetal DNA to pinpoint duplications, flips, and rearrangements, ...

More than 30 years after a young mother was found dead in a park, investigators say DNA testing has identified her killer.

Every cell in the human body carries the same 3 billion letters of DNA, yet a neuron, a heart muscle cell and a pancreatic beta cell each use that shared code to do entirely different jobs. How cells ...

At 22, Sophia Maddox learned that Charles Manson was her grandfather. So she made a documentary about reckoning with the ...

For more than two centuries, a fallen Revolutionary War soldier was unknown and unnoticed. Now, thanks to happenstance and ...

Federal investigators say the cyclospora parasite behind the suspected illnesses of thousands of Americans has been unusually ...

The updated laboratory finding – that the FDA did not find the parasite in a particular lettuce sample – does not change the ...

President Joe Biden recently gave an update on his treatment for metastatic prostate cancer. A urologist explains ways to manage this advanced prostate cancer.

The American chestnut tree was a dominant and iconic species in many Appalachian forests until it was devastated by an introduced fungus from Asia called chestnut blight. A majestic forest tree, an ...

The learner driver’s car was also seized by gardaí after it was found not to be roadworthy due to the presence of bald tyres ...