DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

For decades, fossils discovered in Alaska were believed to belong to ancient mammoths, but recent testing has shocked ...

An analysis of genetic data from over 900,000 people shows that certain stretches of DNA, made up of short sequences repeated over and over, become longer and more unstable as we age.

DNA analysis of cultural artifacts shows diverse biological profiles, but contamination and mixed signals complicate ...

An analysis of genetic data from over 900,000 people shows that certain stretches of DNA, made up of short sequences repeated ...

EL CAJON, Calif. — Nearly three decades after her death, a murder victim whose partially decomposed body turned up in a brushy ravine in eastern San Diego County has been identified. DNA testing has ...

Man kneeling at a burial site with remains of dead soldiers in Napoleon’s army. A mass grave discovered in 2001 in Vilnius, Lithuania, has the remains of at least 3,200 soldiers from Napoleon's Grande ...

Seeking to stop a rapist, veteran DNA detective CeCe Moore found herself fighting a battle among the trees—family trees, that is. And as a result of her meticulous mystery-solving acumen, Utah can ...

Advanced DNA testing has confirmed that human remains found nearly 50 years ago in Lee County were those of a man named Charles Howard Wallace, the Arkansas State Police announced on Friday. The ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rex Heuermann, charged in a string of deaths known ...

RIVERHEAD, Long Island -- When Maureen Brainard-Barnes' skeletal remains were found hidden in the roadside scrub near Long Island's Gilgo Beach in the winter of 2010, there was hardly any physical ...