Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a Canadian man says U.S. customs officers held him ...

The federal government's sweeping power to force people under arrest to give a DNA sample is facing new scrutiny after multiple immigration enforcement protesters reported being swabbed after being ...

David Baker said Pitchfork was a psychopath and should never be released The detective who led the hunt for rapist and murderer Colin Pitchfork - the first killer to be trapped by DNA - has died.

On November 21, 1983, at about 7pm, a 15-year-old girl left home to visit a friend. She never returned home. The following morning, her body was discovered near a footpath, and it was established that ...

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More than two hundred metabolic enzymes, many of which are normally tasked with producing energy in the mitochondria, are also found sitting directly on top of human DNA, according to a study ...

Prosecutors in Zimbabwe used lion DNA forensics for the first time to successfully convict two people for poaching and trafficking a male lion near Hwange National Park. Investigators analyzed DNA ...

Higher education is broken, says Sal Khan, founder of the free digital learning platform Khan Academy, and he aims to provide students with an alternative. Khan said Tuesday he is working on a way to ...

For a long time, we've been sold the idea that Genghis Khan, the 13th century founder of the Mongol Empire, was so phenomenally prolific that one in 200 men alive today carries his exact Y chromosome.

In present day Kazakhstan, both local folklore and genetic evidence found buried in royal tombs have shone a light on the region's ties to Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire. New DNA analysis of ...