The discovery of a juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka, found in Siberian permafrost with its skin and muscles intact, has ...

The way the world grows protein is straining the planet. Raising animals for food covers close to 40 percent of all farmland, ...

The latest SIM registration draft seeks to collect sensitive information such as DNA and retinal scans, causing serious ...

Scientists at Northwestern Medicine have developed a new genetic risk score that predicts who is most likely to experience irregular or dangerous heart rhythms. The test merges several types of ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented fragments of a DNA molecule, and young James Watson was trying to ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

Watson was also an outspoken and controversial figure who transformed the way science was communicated. He was the first high-profile Nobel laureate to give the general public a shockingly personal ...

Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died.

A Suffolk judge has granted a request from twice-convicted murderer John Bittrolff to compare DNA from accused serial killer Rex A. Heuermann to unknown DNA found at one of Bittrolff's crime scenes in ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — After 30 years, Austin city leaders announced the infamous yogurt shop murders had been solved. Austin Police Chief of Police Lisa Davis said, “advances in science and technology” ...

For years, the federal government has been amassing DNA profiles of noncitizens. But recently released Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data reveal that officials knowingly collected the DNA of ...