A wild banana’s hidden gene may help save the world’s favorite fruit from a relentless fungal threat. Scientists have identified a powerful source of natural resistance to a fungal disease that ...

Investigators are hopeful that some of the DNA that was found at Guthrie's home can be parsed and help point to a suspect in her disappearance.

Ancient DNA shows that hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe endured for millennia, with women driving a gradual cultural shift toward farming. Researchers at the University of Huddersfield have ana ...

Many law enforcement agencies are relying on crowdfunding to pay for genetic genealogy, which has helped solve hundreds of ...

Over four decades after a teenager was murdered, DNA found on a discarded cigarette has helped authorities catch her killer. Sarah Geer, 13, was last seen leaving her friend’s house in Cloverdale, ...

An international research team, with significant involvement from the Medical University of Vienna, has developed a new AI-based analysis method that can accurately classify brain tumors using genetic ...

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists and multinational collaborators created AI-powered M-PACT to facilitate next-generation classification of pediatric brain tumors by liquid biopsy.

While DNA evidence found on a glove believed to have been worn by a man suspected of abducting Nancy Guthrie didn't produce a match in the FBI's database, it could still give investigators the clues ...

In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, comparable to a mechanism in eukaryotic cells. The finding challenges the dogma ...

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have created AI-powered M-PACT to facilitate next-generation classification of pediatric brain tumors by liquid biopsy.