Cats Domesticated Themselves, Ancient DNA Shows. A comprehensive survey of cat genes suggests that even after felines wandered into our lives, they remained largely unchanged for thousands of years.

DNA identification has gone mainstream—from the elite labs of “CSI” to your living room. When it first appeared over 30 years ago, it was an arcane technique.

Even in the desensitized landscape of death-penalty cases, the justice’s opinion in Gutierrez manages to stun.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA testing in a bid to test evidence he says would block his execution.

If Farwell wasn’t the father of her unborn child, according to new DNA tests, what was his motive to kill her?

Christopher Barbour tried to take back his confession more than 30 years ago. Now, new DNA points to someone else.

With a last name like Feldkamp, I fully expected my DNA results from 23andMe to confirm what I thought I already knew. My ...

Anne Wojcicki's winning bid to reclaim control of 23andMe doesn't necessarily end the fight over what happens to the DNA of 15 million people collected by the bankrupt consumer genomics company.

Oklahoma AG joins lawsuit to block 23andMe from selling DNA data. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed a federal lawsuit to block 23andMe, a genetic testing company, from selling its ...

Learn more about receiver DK Metcalf in this edition of Five Fast Facts. 1. Metcalf was acquired by the Steelers via a trade from the Seattle Seahawks at the start of free agency and signed a new five ...

The DNA sampling has been completed for 11 of the 270 victims of the Air India plane crash, officials at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital said on Saturday. One body has already handed over to the ...

Once DNA is extracted, DNA fingerprinting is performed. This is a technique that uniquely identifies an individual by comparing the DNA of the deceased with reference samples provided by family ...