It started as a tragic missing person case — but ended with a shocking forensic breakthrough. Years after Megan Waterman’s ...

The Galleri blood test by Grail can be given annually and looks for the DNA ‘fingerprint’ of more than 50 deadly cancers.

The doc delved into the murder of four girls at an Austin-based yogurt shop. By The Associated Press Police named a dead man Friday as a new suspect in the 1991 unsolved killings of four teenage girls ...

“We hope that this new ability to study somatic mutations in non-invasive tissue biopsies from healthy individuals becomes a ...

Scientists have reached a new milestone in decoding the human genome, unlocking complex regions once believed to be too difficult to study. Researchers used long-read sequencing to analyze the DNA of ...

Ancient viruses left a legacy in your DNA. And it turns out, that legacy may be helping shape who you are. A recent international study has shown that certain bits of ancient viral DNA, long dismissed ...

Companies that make DNA for science labs screen out any requests for dangerous bits of genetic material. But a new study ...

The first people to step foot in the Americas were harboring a sliver of DNA from two extinct Eurasian human groups: the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, a new study finds. This genetic relic could ...