When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don’t undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...

A New York judge on Wednesday allowed DNA evidence obtained through advanced techniques into the forthcoming murder trial of Rex Heuermann, the man accused of being Long Island’s Gilgo Beach serial ...

Discovery reshapes understanding of how tumor cells repair broken DNA, pointing toward more precise cancer therapies.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked the Florida Supreme Court late Friday to reinstate next week’s scheduled execution of James Duckett — a former Lake County police officer convicted of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A DNA lab in Texas is credited with playing a pivotal role in identifying the victim in a grisly 1970 murder in Allegany County.

Attorneys for Florida death row inmate James Aren Duckett filed an emergency motion with the Florida Supreme Court late Wednesday, seeking to halt his execution scheduled for March 31. The 11th-hour ...

Carla Walker, 17, was abducted in 1974 in Fort Worth, Texas, and her case remained unsolved for decades. Investigators preserved key evidence but lacked the technology to identify a suspect at the ...

More than 50 years later, the suspected killer of a New York mom-of-three has been identified thanks to a breakthrough in DNA analysis. For more than half a century, the murder of 31‑year‑old Barbara ...

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Imagine a tiny superhero inside every cell of your body whose job is to stop damaged cells before they turn dangerous. That superhero is a gene called TP53, and for decades scientists have known it as ...