MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

Researchers at a Harvard Medical School laboratory are uncertain how they will continue supporting a large public genetic database after its primary source of funding expired last month.

Scholars have debated precisely what kinds of diseases ravaged Napoleon’s troops. New DNA analysis of some soldiers’ remains ...

Scientists analyzed data from more than one million users of 23andMe and found associations between certain genes and stuttering ...

Smithsonian researchers used fecal samples to identify specific wild swift foxes. This method allows for non-invasive monitoring, which reduces stress for the animals. Wes Overvold, Smithsonian’s ...

Investigators using technology that lets them analyze DNA quickly without a lab have positively identified the remains of 14 ...

The practices of the California-based lab whose novel DNA analysis techniques have been used to link accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann to the killings of several young women, and its ...

As a string of criminal cases reliant on suspect statements led to wrongful convictions that have been overturned in retrials, the importance of scientific investigations based on objective evidence, ...