For nearly three decades, police did not know the identity of a man whose bones were found wrapped in a carpet in Plymouth.

A KILLER who was found guilty of raping and murdering a pensioner almost 60 years ago has been jailed for life. Ryland ...

Officials have begun collecting blood samples from relatives of Sigachi blast victims for DNA tests, as 24 of the 35 ...

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

Synthetic Human Genome Project aims to develop methods allowing scientists to not only read an entire DNA molecule but also ...

Hansen's Disease, more commonly known as leprosy, is a chronic disease that can lead to physical impairment. Today it exists ...

Many — but not all — of the 21 drugs studied caused mutations and premature ageing in healthy blood, the researchers found. One three-year-old patient being treated for a nerve tissue cancer had more ...

More than three decades after the rape of a 12-year-old girl, investigators say DNA evidence allegedly links a Brockton man ...

Eggs and embryos from people with polycystic ovary syndrome have altered patterns of so-called epigenetic tags, which could explain how the condition is inherited ...

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.