Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. glowing rainbow DNA strand With the rise of DNA ancestry tests, it’s easier than ever to learn about your family history and ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

Last week, Gov. Rick Perry granted the state's first posthumous pardon to a man who was innocent of a crime for which he had spent 13 years in prison. DNA testing cleared Tim Cole of a rape he did not ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is using rapid DNA testing technology to help speed up investigations, and News 2 got a look at how it works. “This technology has been ...

DNA repair proteins act like the body's editors, constantly finding and reversing damage to our genetic code. Researchers have long struggled to understand how cancer cells hijack one of these ...