Egypt's $5 million DNA lab, funded by the Discovery Channel, is the centerpiece of an ambitious plan to identify mummies and re-examine the royal mummy collection.
Months after Egypt boldly announced that archaeologists had identified a mummy as the most powerful queen of her time, scientists in a museum basement are still analyzing DNA from the bald, 3,500-year-old corpse to try to back up the claim aired on TV.
A man who spent months in jail after being accused of sexually assaulting and drowning his 3-year-old daughter before DNA evidence cleared him was awarded, with his wife, $15.5 million Thursday.
A murder charge filed this year based on DNA tests unavailable when the victim was strangled in 1980 is being dropped because more testing made the case difficult to prove, a prosecutor said Thursday.
A man enjoyed freedom Tuesday after a DNA test proved he did not commit a 1979 rape. John Jerome White, 48, left Macon State Prison on Monday evening.
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that collecting DNA evidence from nonviolent drug offenders doesn't violate their privacy rights.
The "CSI"-style wizardry increasingly being used to solve crimes is running up against its limitations in Houston, where police are hunting for a possible serial killer in the slayings of seven prostitutes.
An Abyssinian cat from Missouri, named Cinnamon, has just made scientific history. Researchers have largely decoded her DNA, a step that may aid the search for treatments for both feline and human diseases.
Australian troops' DNA records will be collected to ensure that blast victims can be identified, defense officials said Wednesday as the body of the latest soldier killed in Afghanistan was brought home.
Two services launching just a week apart tap a growing interest in DNA testing to help people find their ancestors and learn more about their lives.
Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo wants foreigners seeking visas to join relatives in the U.S. to provide DNA samples to prove their family ties.
Rascal's mom looked like Lassie. And his dad? Well, that's a good question. Rascal's ears make it clear that he was the product of something besides a collie, but his owners couldn't say exactly what. So Kathie Svoboda of Lincoln dabbed a swab in her pet's mouth, mailed it to a lab and, a few weeks later, unlocked the mutt's canine heritage.
People are less alike than scientists had thought when it comes to the billions of building blocks that make up each individual's DNA, according to a new analysis.
An 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from the oldest known ice on Earth is now growing in a laboratory, claim researchers.
Ice-covered Greenland really was green a half-million or so years ago, covered with forests in a climate much like that of Sweden and eastern Canada today.
Norman O. Wheeler probably wishes he had finished that cinnamon bun. DNA evidence from the partly eaten pastry led to Wheeler's arrest in a 2004 car theft.
Nicknamed Conan the Bacterium, Deinococcus radiodurans can survive doses of ionising radiation thousands of times stronger than would kill a human. So how does it do it?
When a 60-year-old man spat on the sidewalk, his DNA became as public as if he had been advertising it across his chest.
The evolutionary tree shows how pubic lice – Pthirus pubis and Pthirus gorillae – afflict humans and gorillas. Humans and chimps, meanwhile, can host Pediculus head lice (Illustration: J W Demastes/T Choe/V S Smith)
Illegal ivory tusks seized in Singapore in 2002 give reveal the scale of the poaching problem (Image: PNAS)
Researchers analysing the DNA in Neolithic human remains claim to have uncovered the first direct evidence that modern humans have evolved changes in response to natural selection.
The long-suspected link between Alzheimer's disease and abnormalities in the way amyloid protein is processed in the brain has been confirmed at last.
AFTER a tantalisingly successful run at sequencing parts of the extinct woolly mammoth's genome, the project is now stalled for lack of funds.
A grid of 9 wells corresponds to the squares on a tic-tac-toe grid (Image: Joanne Macdonald)
The first comparison of human and Neanderthal DNA shows that the two lineages diverged about 400,000 years ago and that Neanderthals may have had more DNA in common with chimps than with modern humans.