We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a ...

Scientists have finally documented a notorious DNA hitchhiker at work in human cells. The team shows how a protein called ORF2p slices DNA at small openings that form during DNA replication. During ...

NEW YORK (CNN) — For more than 40 years, the person responsible for the brutal rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl on Long Island has eluded capture. DNA from a smoothie straw, prosecutors say, ...

Biological rhythms aren't just for sleep. In the tiny worm C. elegans, researchers in the Grosshans lab and the Computational Biology Platform of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical ...

Sequencing has filled global archives with vast DNA and RNA reads, but finding signals in that noise has remained out of reach. ETH Zurich’s MetaGraph turns raw sequences into a compressed, full-text ...

BIBB COUNTY, Ga. — A DNA match has led to an arrest in a 2017 Bibb County sexual assault case. Robert Lee Carter, 66, is charged with rape, according to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said ...

Molecular biologist Dr. Max Rempel claims to have found strands of alien genes that he says may have been “inserted” into human DNA. He also says this genetic manipulation may be affecting millions of ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...