DNA, often called the blueprint of life, is built from four chemical building blocks known as deoxy-nucleoside triphosphates ...

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

Our experiences leave traces in the brain, stored in small groups of cells called engrams. Engrams are thought to hold the ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature 1, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories.

Mohammad Bishawi, 33, is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a business near 19th Avenue and Thunderbird Road in May 2023. Police say DNA from an attempted sexual assault in Gilbert linked ...

Recent research has uncovered a fascinating mechanism in the nematode worm C. elegans that could have profound implications ...

Ohio law enforcement officials said they have identified skeletal remains discovered 36 years ago in Franklin County using DNA from a relative. The remains were found on Nov. 3, 1989, on Walcutt Road ...

A year after a USA TODAY investigation revealed that police around the country weren’t following up on DNA evidence from unsolved rape cases, the Justice Department has published a report urging them ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Investigators with the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office Cold Case Unit are asking the public for help solving a murder now that they’ve identified the victim.