Genetics reunited the families of Argentina’s disappeared. President Javier Milei’s government is imperiling that.

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

Akihiko Yamamoto recently connected with his American sister, Sharon Lovell, whom he never knew existed. For most of his life ...

Scientists have decoded the DNA of an ancient Egyptian man. His remains, found in a clay pot, suggest cultural links between ancient Egypt and the Fertile Crescent.

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

A cold case serial rapist has been arrested after his DNA was used to track him down following years of investigations, the ...

Police began investigating the death, and determined the remains were an adult male that likely died by homicide.

Using an inexpensive electrode coated with DNA, MIT researchers have designed disposable diagnostics that could be adapted to ...

A bankruptcy judge approved the sale of 23andMe's assets and business operations to a nonprofit led by 23andMe’s co-founder ...

Read the stories below. Robert Hecht’s new Lincoln was found in Lenoir, North Carolina, more than a 700-mile drive from the ...