Recent discoveries in Colombia have unveiled a previously unknown human DNA lineage in ancient remains, offering fascinating ...

Roche has put forward a new approach to genetic analysis, which it describes as sequencing-by-expansion—a proprietary method that pulls apart the DNA molecule and amplifies the signal of each ...

An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in the animals’ mouths and bodies more than one million years ago. The study, ...

A DNA analysis conducted on soil samples found within a Turkish cave system has revealed evidence of an ancient charcoal ...

Background Molecular genetic diagnoses are critical to prevention and treatment of inherited polyposis and colorectal cancer.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham's Bladder Cancer Research Center have used a new method to detect chemical ...

About a dozen studies in the past five years have made claims linking nearly every type of human cancer with the presence of microbiomes, “communities” of bacteria, viruses and fungi that live in or ...

After 27 years as “Jane Doe,” the woman found in Lake Ray Hubbard has been identified as Penny Gunn through forensic DNA ...

At the heart of the case against the man accused of the Gilgo Beach killings is DNA evidence — but the novel way that ...

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A New York judge on Wednesday allowed DNA evidence obtained through advanced techniques into the ...