Officials identified the remains of a girl found in a dumpster near 21st Avenue in 1984 as 14-year-old Renee Isabel Nilsson.

A 14-year-old girl left to go swimming in 1984 and then vanished, and now her remains have been identified 40-plus years ...

In a postconviction proceeding in 2023, Shepperson sought DNA testing of a residual swab from the barrel of the handgun used during the attack on N.M. The test “results were below the limit of ...

The DNA Doe Project is a nonprofit where volunteers help identify cold case victims using genetic genealogy. Now one local ...

Scientists are worried about the future of the Million Veteran Program, which houses critical data for health research.

When environmental stress harms DNA, it can set off a cascade of failures linked to heart conditions, neurodegeneration, and ...

The story of this potentially paradigmatic development begins where so much of human health begins: the mitochondria.

Scientists have reached a new milestone in decoding the human genome, unlocking complex regions once believed to be too ...

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small ...

Across two new papers published Wednesday (July 23) in the journal Nature, scientists sequenced the DNA of 1,084 people ...

A cohort of eight babies at risk of inheriting mitochondrial disease were born without complications after British scientists ...