As poaching of valuable fragrant incense trees rises in Hong Kong, scientists are turning to genetics to fight back. Geneticist Zhang Huarong uses genetics to catalogue and take DNA samples from each ...

The Placer County Sheriff’s Office has identified the remains of a Berkeley woman more than three decades after they were found in Colfax.

Self-swab DNA testing could put rape survivors "at risk", forensic experts say, with a leading lawyer adding he is "horrified ...

A former neighbor of Edna Schubert, 88, who was beaten to death in her Suffolk County home, was arrested after a retired ...

The Mexican long-nosed bat has been listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act since 1988, and is the only one in ...

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A DNA breakthrough identified a neighbor as the killer in a 1995 Riviera Beach murder case. Cold case investigator John MacBeigh announced Monday that Willie Rodgers has ...

The U.S. military is working on a new effort to identify the remains of service members killed in the infamous World War ...

The instructions for building and operating a human being are written with just four letters, abbreviated A,T,C and G representing four chemicals arranged like steps that are strung along in a ...

Could a novel approach to genetic studies give us a clearer picture of how evolutionary adaptations occur? That's what the ...