DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four chemical bases: A, C, T, and G. Together, ...

Abstract: In DNA sequencing, we often need to infer an unknown sequence from a collection of its corrupted copies. Each copy cannot faithfully tell the truth due to DNA fragmentation, point mutations, ...

The gruesome torture and murder of Catherine Blackburn haunted her family for decades. The beloved 50-year-old Albany-area woman was showing her apartment to potential renters on Sept. 13, 1964, when ...

WEST MICHIGAN — October is Menopause Awareness Month, and the focus on the role of DNA sequencing in women's health during menopause is an emerging frontier of medicine. Women often face a wave of new ...

Jian Carrot-Zhang is in the Computational Oncology Program, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, New York 10065, USA, and in the ...

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 ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced a complete genome from ancient Egypt. They read the DNA from a man who lived when the earliest pyramids rose along the Nile. The study reports that his ...

More than 12 years since a skull was discovered in Shasta County, advanced DNA testing has revealed that the remains belonged to a Napa woman, officials said. In March 2013, brush cutting workers ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Thanks to advanced DNA technology, law enforcement has solved a 12-year-old case. Authorities now say the unidentified human remains -- discovered more than a decade ago -- ...