A tiny bubble of lipids, enzymes and DNA has done something biologists have chased for years: it carried out a full cycle of ...

Scientists build a synthetic cell that grows, divides and replicates DNA using only non-living chemical components.

The DNA Doe Project identified the remains found by a family on Salmon Creek Beach in Sonoma County in 2022, the sheriff’s office announced Thursday. According to the DNA Doe Project, on June 17, 2022 ...

As the war with Iran nears its one-month mark on March 28, complex escalation dynamics continue to drive the conflict. Iran’s escalation strategy centers on unrestrained retaliation in response to U.S ...

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," goes the old adage, which Rice University professor James Chappell completely ignored in a recent Nature Communications publication. In the study, Chappell describes ...

Cracking cold cases to catch a killer has become more common, but figuring out an unidentified victim is much more complicated. But thanks to a North Bay genetic sleuth and breakthrough DNA analysis, ...

Scientists have discovered that a sample collected from the Ryugu asteroid by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft contains the five nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil, the building ...

Lance Shockley, a man on death row in Missouri, wanted items from the crime scene to undergo DNA testing to potentially prove his innocence. The court scheduled proceedings on his request — but the ...

Alabama is still pushing to execute a man despite “incontrovertible DNA evidence” proving that he is innocent, according to a new brief filed this week by the Innocence Project. Last summer, a federal ...

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ASHLAND, Va. — Almost 50 years after his death, an Illinois native who was killed in a traffic crash in Virginia in 1977 has been identified. The former “Ashland John Doe” was fatally struck by a ...