The intense UV emitted by the Sun is absorbed by your skin and can cause sunburn or even damage DNA in your body cells – which could lead to skin cancer. X-rays can also damage DNA in body cells ...

KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 — A man accused of murdering a nightclub bouncer 12 years ago has finally been charged in the Butterworth Magistrates’ Court today. Ooi Chin Leng, a 38-year-old car ...

Researchers work in a mobile Fire-Eye laboratory in Beijing in June 2020. The labs can identify coronavirus infections, as well as decipher and analyze human DNA. (Fu Tian/China News Service/Getty ...

A new “DNA atlas” of Ireland is revealing some of the surprising ways historic kingdoms have influenced populations on the island—and it offers the first genetic evidence that Vikings ...

The case went cold and remained so until 2023, when advances in DNA and genealogical testing connected the case to a man named Ricky Lee Stallworth. Stallworth was a 27-year-old airman stationed ...

Pennsylvania State Police announced it has initiated a Rapid DNA program. This includes 15 fully automated genetic analyzers that have been given to troops across the state. “This program ...

The DNA testing firm 23andMe says it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals for $256m (£192m). It comes two months after the company filed for bankruptcy ...

Stallworth died of natural causes in 2023, but a relative of his voluntarily provided a DNA sample that police say confirmed Stallworth‘s identification. “I wish we could have got to him ...

A forensic laboratory has confirmed the presence of DNA evidence that could provide answers in the case of Jason Carroll, a man who has spent more than three decades in prison for a murder he says ...