New research shows our DNA is absolutely loaded with nothing. 98 percent of our DNA plays no role in our development. But as Trace learns, the finding...
Sixty years after Watson and Crick first described the two-stranded "double helix" structure of DNA, scientists at the University of Cambridge now rep...
A company called ScotlandsDNA claims that all people with the red hair gene can be traced back to the first person with that feature, meaning all peop...
Junk DNA is probably actually junk. Junk DNA, the huge portion of the genome that holds no valuable gene code for making proteins, may truly be junk a...
Using DNA as a hard drive? Its not as crazy as it sounds! Scientists at the European Bioinformatics Institute over in the UK, have actually done it an...
Tracking down criminals just got a little bit easier, thanks to small paintball-like pellets from UK security company Selectamark. The pellets are lo...
More than thirty institutions have collaborated to study the human genome -- and have found functions for 80% of the genes in our body. Researchers sa...
An artist and PhD student in New York City prints 3D masks from the DNA evidence she finds on the street. Used objects like wads of gum, cigarette but...
The New York City medical examiner has called for the re-examination of 800 rape cases after several were found to be mishandled by one lab technicia...