According to informed sources, the first thread of the case surfaced in Beirut in 2019, when a 21-year-old Syrian woman ...

"It allows officers to place DNA into a machine and instead of waiting weeks or months, you get results on whether that DNA is a single source of human DNA in 90 minutes." ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The challenge: the process seemed random and notoriously difficult to predict.

Millions remain unscreened for colorectal cancer. Learn how noninvasive screening can expand access, preserve capacity, and ...

The Zika virus epidemic that began in Brazil in 2015 and quickly spread to other countries caused an unprecedented flood of ...

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...

What happens when a genetic test unlocks long-held family secrets or other surprising results? Genetic genealogist Kelli ...

Researchers suggest that they have recovered sequences from ancient works and from letters that may belong to the Renaissance ...

A proposed rule change would allow the government to routinely gather people's biometric data without a warrant.

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

Scientists have successfully recovered what may be Leonardo da Vinci's DNA from a centuries-old red chalk drawing, marking a breakthrough that could unlock secrets about one of history's greatest ...

Here at MIT Technology Review we’ve been writing about the gene-editing technology CRISPR since 2013, calling it the biggest ...