DNA is often called the blueprint of life, but what does that really mean? Elizabeth Worthey, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Genetics in the Heersink School of Medicine, explains everything ...
Before a cell divides, its DNA is replicated so that each daughter cell inherits the same genetic information. The two copies, known as "sister chromatids," are held together by a ring-shaped protein ...
DNA collected from a 1994 sexual assault in California linked a 55-year-old man to four cold cases in Arizona, officials said. In the California case, the victim was able to escape after she was ...
Joseph Holt, who died in 2014, allegedly killed two young women in the 1970s. Two unsolved murders of young women from the 1970s have now been linked to one suspect through DNA and genetic genealogy, ...
Rex Heuermann is accused of killing seven people over a span of decades. A New York judge on Wednesday admitted DNA evidence that Suffolk County prosecutors say links alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer ...
Eight healthy babies have been born in the U.K. using a new IVF technique that successfully reduced their risk of inheriting genetic diseases from their mothers, the people behind a world-first trial ...