A man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the cold case murder of a Far Rockaway teen, District Attorney Melinda ...

We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

Autosana, the first agentic QA platform for iOS, Android, and web apps, announced today it has raised $3.2M in funding from Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Phosphor Capital, DeVC, 468 Capital and angel ...

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

Industrial yeasts are a powerhouse of protein production, used to manufacture vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and other useful compounds. In a new study, MIT chemical engineers have harnessed artificial ...

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

In the late 1990s, Olympics officials were suddenly eager to exit the business of testing women’s DNA. After three decades of requiring all women athletes to sit for chromosome tests in order to ...

A new study says genetic testing can speed the return of the American chestnut tree that once dominated Eastern U.S. forests.

A new highly sensitive light-based sensor can detect extremely low concentrations of cancer biomarkers in the blood.

The case has exposed the limits of DNA evidence and raised unsettling questions about how justice can be delivered when ...

Testing the biological sex of an athlete is becoming more common in sport, with governing bodies defending the practice as ...

A lengthy investigation into Robinson’s case by the district attorney's Conviction Integrity Review Unit was launched in 2022.