The Iowa House passed a bill requiring DNA samples from people arrested on certain charges, sparking debate over crime-solving tools, costs and constitutional rights.

Genome editing-based therapies typically aim to treat disease by correcting underlying genetic mutations in patient’s cells. However, most genetic disorders are caused by dozens or even thousands of ...

After a years-long collaborative investigation, law enforcement officers arrested a man suspected of raping women in Texas and Oklahoma.

A child rape investigation from 2023 resulted in an arrest after investigators found a DNA match from the victim’s sexual ...

Nobel laureate James Watson was expelled from his own laboratory after controversial racial statements that shook the scientific world.

More witnesses took the stand Friday in Tavaris Jackson’s murder trial, including a latent print examiner, a forensic biologist and an EMS paramedic. Sarah Rambadt, a forensic scientist in the biology ...

The U.S. military plans to exhume the remains of 88 sailors and Marines killed when the USS Arizona was bombed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who were buried as unknowns in a Honolulu ...

Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), used to treat genetic diseases, can affect how cells repair damage to their DNA. This is ...

An audit of the Colorado Bureau of Investigations’ DNA evidence testing took a deep dive into the work the agency is doing to ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health traits. By probing regions of DNA previously linked to disease, the work has ...