Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a protein that acts like a traffic controller for DNA, preventing damage during cell ...

The discovery centers on the unique strands of DNA contained within our mitochondria, the power stations of our cells. By ...

Companies that make DNA for science labs screen out any requests for dangerous bits of genetic material. But a new study ...

The human repairome, REPAIRome, will allow researchers around the world to rapidly check out how each of the 20,000 human genes affects DNA repair. Created by researchers at the Spanish National ...

Human embryos have been developed from eggs given the DNA of adult skin cells – a feat that had previously been achieved in mice. This could one day provide a way for same-sex couples or women with ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals that cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) promote DNA replication licensing in human cells by relieving inhibitory signals ...

A man has been arrested for a violent sexual assault at Fort Hale Park in New Haven last month, police announced Friday. Ludvi Omar Carias-Interiano, 34, originally from Guatemala, was arrested ...

An ex-boyfriend of University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling is testing his DNA to determine whether he is the father of the newborn found dead in her closet last month. Snelling’s former beau ...

Advanced DNA testing has confirmed that human remains found nearly 50 years ago in Lee County were those of a man named Charles Howard Wallace, the Arkansas State Police announced on Friday. The ...

A New York judge will allow prosecutors to present crucial DNA evidence in the upcoming murder trial of suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann, marking the first time a cutting-edge ...

Evidence derived from cutting-edge DNA technology that prosecutors say points directly at Rex Heuermann being the Gilgo Beach serial killer will be admissible at his trial, a Suffolk County judge ...