DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build ...

Over one billion people worldwide are over 60, and the population is projected to more than double by 2050. But as more ...

Most people who have heard of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (more commonly known as CRISPR) associate it with gene editing—the precise molecular scissors that allow ...

A bargain DNA kit ordered on a whim seemed like harmless fun for one British woman, until the results unsettled her family's ...

Botstein, Princeton’s Anthony B. Evnin ‘62 Professor of Genomics, Emeritus, and an emeritus professor of molecular biology ...

The COVID pandemic ushered mRNA vaccines into the spotlight, and the technology has even greater potential. Here’s what to ...

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Over 50 years ago, a baby was found in a black trash bag inside a Columbus County landfill. For decades, the baby went by “Baby Doe” and remained unidentified. That all changed this week when advanced ...

VALLEY COUNTY, IDAHO, Idaho — A decades-old sexual assault cold case has been solved with the help of advanced DNA analysis, according to the Valley County Sheriff's Office (VCSO). The victim reported ...

For decades, scientists viewed the genome of a newly fertilized egg as a structural "blank slate"—a disordered tangle of DNA waiting for the embryo to wake up and start reading its own genetic ...

CHARLOTTE — New DNA technology helped the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department solve the 1990 killing of Kim Thomas, leading to an arrest 35 years after she was stabbed to death inside her Cotswold ...