An expert who worked on the infamous Idaho murders case has explained how digital technology could unearth new clues in the mysterious disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. “People forget how much their ...

Your phone is the silent witness to your life. It knows everything you do,” said a digital forensics expert who worked on the University of Idaho slayings.

Researchers at the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology have uncovered new evidence that two major types of gene-controlling DNA sequences, promoters and enhancers, operate with a shared ...

Perhaps human females found Neanderthal males to be high-status providers. Or perhaps Neanderthal society was “patrilocal” — meaning women moved to join the man’s family — while human society was the ...

A study published in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, destabilize the cancer genome. Unstable genomes are a fertile playground for cancer ...

DNA, the genetic blueprints in every living organism, is nature's most efficient storage mechanism, capable of storing about 215 million gigabytes of data per gram. That storage capacity, if applied ...

In the face of rising emissions from data centres, researchers are turning to micro-explosions in glass and the use of DNA to solve big data's big problem.

A pioneering test is improving early diagnosis for people with hereditary cancer caused by a genetic condition. Just over 30 years ago, Carol Coughtrey was diagnosed with bowel cancer and a blood test ...

A key piece of evidence could provide investigators with additional context surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance from her Tucson, Arizona, home as the search for the missing 84-year-old stretches ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The New Haven Police Department said it has made an arrest in an alleged sexual assault case dating back more than a decade thanks to DNA technology. New Haven Special ...