UMD researchers have discovered key mechanisms in gene regulation that could improve the design of RNA-based medicines.

A 50-year-old Gander man has been charged in Toronto for the 1998 murder of a young pregnant woman, after police there used DNA from the scene and investigative genetic genealogy to crack the cold ...

A rabbi reacted to the identification of his brother's remains, which were discovered in a field and then stored in the Lancaster County Forensic Center when investigators hit a roadblock.

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

Khorana’s research at the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin and later at MIT helped decipher the ...

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed ...

It’s been nearly three decades since Atlanta-born child beauty pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey was brutally killed in her Colorado home. Her family now hopes advances in DNA technology can help solve ...

Racial disparities in mortality are increasing. This article explores how the production of DNA-edited ethnically diverse ...

Orville Moe’s letter to the editor “Created as unequal human beings” suggests that inequalities between individuals in society are unavoidable due to inequalities in human abilities. To put ...

According to climate models and research conducted by the IPCC, NASA and other scientific institutions, their frequency, intensity and duration are expected to grow in the future. Apart from the ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...