A jury will begin deliberations Monday in the murder trial of Edrick Faust, accused of the 2001 slaying of UGA law student Tara Baker.

Prospective parents are being marketed genetic tests that claim to predict which IVF embryo will grow into the tallest, smartest or healthiest child. But these tests cannot deliver what they promise.

Men tend to lose the Y chromosome from their cells as they age. But because the Y bears few genes other than for male determination, it was thought this loss would not affect health. But evidence has ...

The trial over the murder of Tara Baker will resume Wednesday morning after testimony about DNA linking defendant Edrick Faust was given late Tuesday evening.

The Y-STR technique finds DNA that is passed down through the paternal side and was used to link Wright to Victoria's body (Image: Suffolk Police) Police worked with Cellmark Forensic Services which ...

Suffolk police's assistant chief constable Alice Scott said Y-chromosome Short Tandem Repeats (Y-STR) profiling was used ...

Objective To compare the diagnostic accuracy of minipad collected menstrual blood versus clinician collected cervical samples ...

Deep-learning model decodes the regulatory effects of DNA changes ...

A man who adopted a dog from a shelter earlier this year did a DNA test to finally found out what breed she is, and the results were certainly not what he expected. Brett Miller adopted Birdie, a ...

Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops, and how you respond to disease. Bills owner made call to fire coach in locker room after ...

It's been nearly 30 years since JonBenet Ramsey's haunting Christmastime murder — and there’s renewed optimism that investigators could be closer than ever to solving it. Boulder police, who have made ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival technologies, such as stone tools. They may also have given us the secret to a ...