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 ...

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

Chemists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have found a new use for deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), not just as ...

DNA, often called the blueprint of life, is built from four chemical building blocks known as deoxy-nucleoside triphosphates ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. Sequences that form DNA secondary structures, ...

The woman is alleged to have bombarded Kate and Gerry with calls, letters and messages over almost three years A DNA test on a Polish woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann has “conclusively” proved ...

Deng Chol Majek contests the Crown’s claim that CCTV proves he stabbed Rhiannon Skye Whyte and then left her for dead on a railway station platform. An asylum seeker who denies murdering a hotel ...

Madeleine McCann's dad Gerry McCann has explained three reasons why he and his wife Kate did not agree to Julia Wandelt’s request for a DNA test at a stalking trial. Wandelt, 24, from Lubin in ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — A psychology lecture at the University of Washington erupted into turmoil on Wednesday when a man barged into one of the campus’s largest classrooms, raising a Nazi salute and shouting ...

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 ...

Officials are still waiting on confirmation on whether the remains are Decker. The U.S. Marshals Service has declared Travis Decker, the 32-year-old father accused of allegedly killing his three ...