Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing reams of data and how to protect that information from unintended access. Now ...

Gene therapy holds the promise of preventing and curing disease by manipulating gene expression within a patient's cells. However, to be effective, the new gene must make it into a cell's nucleus. The ...

Advances in DNA and genetic genealogy helped police identify a suspect in the 1980 killings of Lynn Vest and her young son, ...

A new technology elucidated yesterday in the journal Nature has the potential to be a leap forward in DNA synthesis, allowing ...

DNA technology identifies 16-year-old Alameda cold case remains. Alameda police are working to return him to his family. ALAMEDA COUNTY, Calif. - A DNA laboratory in Texas has identified human remains ...

A major technological advance in DNA writing enables researchers to construct and create in the language of biology ...

Advanced DNA testing and genetic genealogy have identified two long-unidentified sets of remains found along Washington’s ...