Joseph Anthony Abeyta, 55, was charged with murder in the 1987 death of Jesus Ibarra, the Santa Clara County District ...

It has only recently been discovered that single-celled organisms (bacteria and archaea) also have histones—proteins that ...

Marcellus Williams, 55, is set to die Sept. 24 after being convicted of killing former newspaper reporter Lisha Gayle in her ...

New DNA analysis rules out the possibility that Kaspar Hauser was a “lost prince” kidnapped as a child nearly two centuries ...

Researchers have reconstructed the oldest human genomes ever found in South Africa from two people who lived around 10,000 ...

Joseph Couch had been the subject of a manhunt in Kentucky since a shooting on an interstate highway earlier this month.

Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.

In a region known for hosting some of the earliest evidence of modern humans, DNA analysis was sparse. Until now.

DNA from saliva collected on a sidewalk led to the arrest of a Massachusetts man in connection with the 1988 murder of Karen ...

Marcellus Williams, 55, is set to die Sept. 24 after being convicted of killing former newspaper reporter Lisha Gayle in her ...

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments Monday on two issues pursued by death-row prisoner Rodney ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have published a study in Nature Genetics that sheds light on a ...