Many large mammals have lost genetic diversity, often thanks to the actions of people shrinking their populations. The ...

James Fitzjames was one of the captains of British explorer Sir John Franklin's two ships that went missing in 1845.

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

It has only recently been discovered that single-celled organisms (bacteria and archaea) also have histones—proteins that ...

Celebrated Italian horror soundtrack maestro Fabio Frizzi brings his current tour to the DNA Lounge Wednesday night, ...

Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.

Marcellus Williams, 55, is set to die Sept. 24 after being convicted of killing former newspaper reporter Lisha Gayle in her ...

Joseph Anthony Abeyta, 55, was charged with murder in the 1987 death of Jesus Ibarra, the Santa Clara County District ...

New DNA analysis rules out the possibility that Kaspar Hauser was a “lost prince” kidnapped as a child nearly two centuries ...

An initial DNA test of a body believed to belong to Joseph Couch, the suspected gunman behind southern Kentucky's Sept. 7 ...

A man who spit on the sidewalk outside of his home in Boston is now charged with an unsolved 35-year-old murder.

In a region known for hosting some of the earliest evidence of modern humans, DNA analysis was sparse. Until now.