For more than 40 years, the person responsible for the brutal rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl on Long Island has eluded capture. DNA from a smoothie straw, prosecutors say, could now be the key ...

The host cell system is a critical determinant of recombinant protein quality and yield, with direct influence on protein folding and post-translational modification factors that shape the ...

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories. “It’s ...

The alleged stalker of Madeleine McCann’s parents repeatedly begged them for a DNA test, and urged them to think that the missing girl was not dead, in a series of voicemails heard by a jury. Her ...

Her legacy will include the ways she shaped fashion, rather than allowing fashion to shape her. By Vanessa Friedman Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning actress whose death at 79 was revealed this weekend, ...

It wasn't until Logan was in high school that he started to unravel the disturbing potential reality of his family tree AFTER a decade of uncertainty, pain and torment, Logan Gifford can now call ...

For centuries, scientists have recognized that certain illnesses can run in families, an idea that dates back to Hippocrates. Over time, researchers have become increasingly skilled at uncovering how ...

They are weird, bald, subterranean rodents that look like sausages with teeth, and they have just revealed a genetic secret to long life. A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the ...

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 ...

A Polish woman who falsely claims to be Madeliene McCann wrote a chilling letter to the missing child's heartbroken mother, a court has heard. Two women, Julia Wandelt, 24, from Lubin in south-west ...