Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a protein that acts like a traffic controller for DNA, preventing damage during cell division—a discovery that could lead to new cancer therapies, according to ...

It took nearly 50 years to work out the identity of a caribou-like fossil first discovered by construction workers. By Elie Dolgin In 1976, as jackhammers and backhoes carved a subway tunnel through ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

A year after a USA TODAY investigation revealed that police around the country weren’t following up on DNA evidence from unsolved rape cases, the Justice Department has published a report urging them ...

New DNA and ballistics testing have linked a serial killer to the 1991 "Yogurt Shop Murders," solving a case that has haunted Austin, Texas, for more than three decades. During a news conference on ...

The Yogurt Shop Murders were the subject of a four-part documentary released on HBO this year. On Friday, police said DNA evidence collected at the crime scene linked Robert Eugene Brashers to the ...

The suspected killer died by suicide in 1999. Police in Austin, Texas, said DNA technology has helped them finally identify the man who killed four teenage girls at a yogurt shop in 1991 in a crime ...

Old-fashioned detective work and advances in forensic science led to the identification of a suspect in the killings of four teenagers in Austin, Texas, in 1991, officials said. By Christine Hauser ...

Investigators believe they finally have solved the infamous and gruesome 1991 killings of four teenage girls inside an Austin frozen yogurt shop, known as “The Yogurt Shop Murders,” after 34 years. On ...

Authorities investigating the 1991 murders of four teenage girls at a North Austin “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt” shop believe they have solved the case through newly available DNA testing, closing the ...

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Wenatchee Police Department shows Travis Caleb Decker, who is wanted in connection with the deaths of his three daughters. (Wenatchee Police Department via AP ...