You walk through a field of wheat, ryegrass, or clover and notice the sway of stems and leaves. What you cannot see is where most of the action happens.

New data shows that at least 1,129 bodies have been recovered in Gaza but remain unidentified. Experts on the ground tell Maira Butt that the uncertainty is leaving families in agony ...

The case is important because it involves a type of DNA testing that had never been considered in Oklahoma, and will likely ...

Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than ...

For decades, the Golden State Killer avoided capture despite leaving DNA at multiple crime scenes. Traditional databases failed, fingerprints led nowhere, and the case went cold. Everything changed ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a novel liquid biopsy approach to identify early-stage ...

A state police forensic scientist testified about DNA evidence analyzed in the Caneiro family murders.

A new CRISPR-powered light sensor can detect the faintest whispers of cancer in a single drop of blood.

Gene therapy holds the promise of preventing and curing disease by manipulating gene expression within a patient's cells. However, to be effective, the new gene must make it into a cell's nucleus. The ...

In A Nutshell Johns Hopkins researchers developed a blood test that catches 81% of stage IA lung cancers (the earliest, most ...

Despite decades of chasing leads, investigators had been unable to identify the victim of a 1992 homicide on the North Side.