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A man who was shot dead last month as authorities attempted to serve him an indictment on federal gun charges has been ...

A groundbreaking study by the Roslin Institute explores how whole genome duplication shaped the complexity and evolution of ...

The surprise discovery that ancient human DNA can survive in sediments and soil is revolutionising the study of Paleolithic ...

The first historical account of syphilis dates to spring 1495, when a seemingly mysterious disease ravaged the soldiers in ...

A new study by Tel Aviv University reveals how bacterial defense mechanisms can be neutralized, enabling the efficient ...

On Aug. 25, 1991, someone called 911 to report a dead body beneath a wooden board at the intersection of the Cross Island and ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick ...

Paul Caneiro’s defense team is challenging a DNA tool known as STRmix, which prosecutors say has been tested and tried across ...

On May 5, 1993, the naked, hogtied bodies of eight-year-olds Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore were found ...

Two Siberian husky/Belgian Malinois mix dogs owned by the same couple but adopted two years apart recently found out that they are biological sisters through a DNA test.

The victim in a Queens cold case homicide has finally been identified more than three decades after her body was discovered ...