Tulane University researchers have developed an enhanced CRISPR-based tuberculosis test that works with a simple tongue swab, ...

Seventeen years after Louise was raped, Boston police told her they had a DNA match for her alleged rapist. But under ...

A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, ...

Massachusetts has one of the shortest deadlines in the country for prosecuting rape, even when DNA could help prove the case.

Bryce Underwood was dominant — through the air, and on the ground.Underwood passed for 235 yards and a touchdown and rushed ...

A new report from Quest Diagnostics revealed that employees testing positive for fentanyl had surged 400 percent over the past five years. The percentage of employees in the general U.S. workforce who ...

When I wrote about the “Cavalcade of the Cretinous” in February 2022, I thought the anti-vaccination early incarnations of ...

A simple cheek swab test could detect children who have arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, according to research presented at the European Society of Cardiology's annual congress in Madrid. Arrhythmogenic ...

A colonoscopy is still the gold standard. It can find and remove precancerous growths during the same procedure, which no ...

What if you could get checked for colon cancer with only a routine blood draw? A new blood test in Michigan is making the ...

Researchers say weight loss treatments should reflect biology, not just body size – and a new study suggests they might be right. Published in Cell Metabolism, the research shows that a simple genetic ...