It has only recently been discovered that single-celled organisms (bacteria and archaea) also have histones—proteins that ...

Marcellus Williams, 55, is set to die Sept. 24 after being convicted of killing former newspaper reporter Lisha Gayle in her ...

Researchers have reconstructed the oldest human genomes ever found in South Africa from two people who lived around 10,000 ...

New DNA analysis rules out the possibility that Kaspar Hauser was a “lost prince” kidnapped as a child nearly two centuries ...

Joseph Couch had been the subject of a manhunt in Kentucky since a shooting on an interstate highway earlier this month.

Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.

In a region known for hosting some of the earliest evidence of modern humans, DNA analysis was sparse. Until now.

DNA extracted through bone marrow confirmed the body found earlier this week was Joseph Couch, who has been accused of ...

A man who spit on the sidewalk outside of his home in Boston is now charged with an unsolved 35-year-old murder.

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments Monday on two issues pursued by death-row prisoner Rodney ...

Marcellus Williams, 55, is set to die Sept. 24 after being convicted of killing former newspaper reporter Lisha Gayle in her ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have published a study in Nature Genetics that sheds light on a ...