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HOUSTON—A man was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for fatally stabbing an 11-year-old Houston boy as the child walked home from school in 2016. Andre Timothy Jackson had ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—DNA from a coyote that bit a girl on Southern California's Huntington Beach last week matched ...

Jesse Gelsinger, 18, had a rare metabolic disorder called ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency syndrome, or OTCD, in which ammonia ...

Test your understanding of the living world with this simple question. What kind of biomolecule is found in all ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did not rely on any documents for its claims that ...

Food, a precondition for the possibility of life as we know it, is rarely appreciated for its true ...

How does modern medicine see the aging of the human body? Scientists have discovered telomeres function as a ...

How safe are COVID-19 vaccines? Should everyone be taking them? Are people who get vaccines more likely to ...

An Australian university researcher, investigating the relationship between a person's genes and their propensity for heart disease, has ...

Australian scientists have created a new DNA test that can identify more than 50 genetic diseases and could ...

Sayer Ji reports on a newly published study which confirms that there is a plausible mechanism of action ...

The messenger RNA (mRNA) from Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is able to enter human liver cells and is converted ...

WASHINGTON—As few as three major criminal groups are responsible for smuggling the vast majority of elephant ivory tusks ...

HAZLETON, Pa.—DNA and a 20-year-old genealogy expert helped state police identify the man who abducted, raped and murdered ...

News Analysis China is “developing the world’s largest bio database,” said Edward You, who is the U.S. national ...

AURORA, Ind.—DNA testing has confirmed that a bone found in an SUV pulled last fall from the Ohio ...

Commentary If you’ve had a COVID-19 test, there’s a good possibility that the folks in the Chinese Communist ...

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) are using a groundbreaking tech that will grant the ability to predict traits ...

A new version of a lawsuit filed against Subway accusing the fast-food restaurant franchise of deceiving the public about its ...

A new breakthrough blood test that can reportedly able to spot more than 50 different types of cancer early on has ...

WASHINGTON—A sample of Sitting Bull's hair has helped scientists confirm that a South Dakota man is the famed ...

Most people are familiar with the term genetically modified foods (GM foods or GMOs), but not so with ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska—A woman known for 37 years only as Horseshoe Harriet, one of dozen or so victims of ...

With the new vaccine mandates, one of the common concerns is the safety of mRNA vaccines. A key ...

Two major scientific journals have recently retracted articles on Uyghur DNA by Chinese researchers due to ethical concerns. ...

The Chinese government is developing biological weapons that can attack DNA strands specific to targeted racial groups. According ...

COLUMBIA, S.C.—A South Carolina man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for the 2019 abduction and murder ...