A 66-year-old man has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in connection with a nearly five-decade-old cold case, thanks to modern DNA testing. The Honolulu Police Department ...

Or so I thought. My elderly father, curious to learn more about our ancestry, recently purchased a popular DNA testing kit. I didn’t think that anything would come as a surprise since ...

DNA testing has led to the arrest of a former classmate of a Hawaii high school sophomore who was found dead at the school on March 21, 1977. The Honolulu Police Department announced the arrest of ...

Deena Thoemmes told reporters. Castro was charged with second-degree murder after DNA testing not available in the 1970s helped identify him nearly 50 years later, Thoemmes said. It’s not clear ...

Using ancient DNA analysis and testing, a team led by Dr Lara Cassidy and Professor Daniel Bradley from Trinity College Dublin successfully demonstrated that iron age people who were buried in ...

During the peer-review process the editor and reviewers write an eLife assessment that summarises the significance of the findings reported in the article (on a scale ranging from landmark to useful) ...

DNA nanotechnology utilizes the principle of complementary base pairing of DNA, facilitating higher-ordered stacking assembly of DNA double strands through the design of DNA folding pathways, and ...

Comparison of that ancient DNA with modern human DNA showed that the two species had interbred and that people today still carry the genetic fingerprint of that intermixing. Since then ...

Now, researchers used cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) to elucidate the structure of the Nipah virus polymerase complex (the large protein and phosphoprotein). Not only that, but they also ...