One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

DNA testing of the remains has been scheduled in hopes of finding out who was in a truck found submerged in the Mississippi ...

An analysis of tissue samples from nearly 1,200 older adults found that the more insertions individuals had, the younger they died.

Crews last week exhumed his body and took DNA samples they will compare with others in a national database that did not exist ...

Researchers created an interactive molecular map of the human body called COmics, based on extensive multiomics data. The ...

Researchers have gained new insights into the mechanism behind the spatial organization of DNA within the cells of early embryos. When an embryo is first formed after fertilization, each cell has the ...

His name was Garnet Michael Nelson. His long way home is finally over. It’s taken eight years to confirm the homeless drifter ...

A story we published in 2016 — along with the latest in DNA technology — has helped to finally solve the mystery of human ...

Until recently, it was assumed that the so-called "fossil viruses" were simply junk DNA with no important function in the ...

Every cell in our body contains the same DNA. This DNA contains the genetic information that ... embryo has the potential to ...

Decades after hikers found a man's remains in Wrentham, authorities plan to exhume the body in hopes of pinning down an ...

James Chen, a professor of microbiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has won a Lasker Award for his discovery of an ...