A team of scientists is employing a technique used to detect invasive species to search for troops lost at sea.

The cell-free DNA (cfDNA) blood collection tube market is ripe with opportunities driven by the rise in lifestyle-related ...

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Skeletal remains discovered on Silver Strand Beach in May of 1984 have been identified as 33-year-old Donald Scott Reich, a ...

A tiny bone from Starosele Cave, Crimea, has yielded ancient DNA showing it belonged to a Neanderthal dubbed “Star 1”.

Scientists used DNA testing on 1,200-year-old feces to detect E. coli, pinworms, and Giardia in ancient Mexico, and found ...

Carroll County Sheriff Daniel Klatt is on a mission to find out who a human skull found last year belongs to, hopefully ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

Three new toad species bypass the tadpole stage entirely, giving birth to fully formed babies in isolated mountain forests.

A humble kitchen spice could pack a powerful antiviral punch. Researchers have found that compounds in cardamom seeds can ...

What naked mole-rats lack in the looks department they make up for it in longevity, living healthily for nearly four decades. Now scientists have uncovered just how they repair their DNA – and it has ...

A Queensland woman has shared the impact of her ongoing wait of more than 18 months for DNA testing results after she ...