PATASKALA, Ohio (WCMH) — Students at Licking Heights High School are partnering with Amgen to solve mysteries using research-grade technology. Through a partnership with Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) ...

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

These articles describe how new forensic and DNA technologies have helped investigators resolve long-unsolved cases. Each story shows law enforcement reopening cold cases as tools improved.

TEXARKANA, Texas- Police are hoping to solve more cold cases using advanced DNA technology. Investigators recently made a break-through in a more than decade old case, and they're not stopping there.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew F. Erskine is a trusts and estates attorney. Imagine opening a birthday gift DNA kit and discovering you're entitled to ...

Newborn babies admitted to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) rely on the quick decisions and rapid action of the medical team responsible for them. DNA testing is critical to ...

A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how our bodies sense and respond to stress. The findings of the UC ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...

James Dewey Watson, a molecular biologist whose work helped decode the structure of DNA, died on November 6, 2025, at a hospice in East Northport, N.Y. He was 97 years old. Watson was best known for ...

BEXAR COUNTY – A deep dive into the Bexar County Criminal Investigation Lab’s backlogs ends with a look into DNA analysis cases. KSAT’s Courtney Friedman looked into backlogs in all three divisions of ...