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

Kentucky’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr. William Ralston and the state police crime lab have confirmed the unidentified body ...

Human remains found in Kentucky have been positively identified as the man who shot 12 vehicles and wounded five people on ...

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 ...

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar (WCM-Q) have created an intricate molecular map of the human body and its ...

A study in Science Advances has shown that ancient viral DNA fragments can promote cancer cell growth. The LTR10 gene, from a ...

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 ...