Every person starts as just one fertilized egg. By adulthood, that single cell has turned into roughly 37 trillion cells, many of which keep dividing to create the same amount of fresh human cells ...
Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical minefield, with fears of a generation of ‘designer babies’ with pick ‘n’ mix ...
The new storage system could hold family photos, cultural artifacts and the master versions of digital artworks, movies, ...
When CRISPR first burst onto the biotech scene, it rose to fame for its precise cutting prowess—break a target DNA strand, silence a gene. But the tool came with hiccups. While far more efficient than ...
The judge in the Idaho college murders case is set to issue a ruling on DNA evidence that prosecutors say ties the suspected killer, Bryan Kohberger, to the murder scene. Kohberger's defense team ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The $25 million New Orleans crime lab building remains under construction as the city works to once again get its own forensic DNA lab. The New Orleans Police Department on ...
In the last decade, the drive to understand who we are and where we've come from has been accelerated by DNA testing.