DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the nucleic acid polymer that forms the genetic code for a cell or virus. Most DNA molecules consist of two polymers (double-stranded) of four nucleotides that each ...

The prosecution’s most important piece of evidence is a DNA sample taken from a knife sheath left at the crime scene. Investigators then used investigative genetic genealogy, or IGG, a forensic ...

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Environments are littered with the DNA of the creatures that inhabit them. Analyzing it could provide a real-time view of how our planet is changing. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future? Eske Willerslev was on a tour of Montreal’s Redpath Museum, a Victorian-era ...

Stanford Medicine researchers sifted through thousands of single nucleotide mutations in DNA to identify fewer than 400 that are functionally associated with inherited cancer risk. Thousands of ...

British historian Russell Edwards claims to have identified Jack the Ripper as Aaron Kosminski using DNA evidence from a crime scene. Kosminski, a mentally ill Polish immigrant, allegedly committed ...

Over a century after he murdered and mutilated London women in 1888, the long-mythologized killer’s identity has allegedly been confirmed by DNA found on a shawl, historian Russell Edwards said.

The former are an extremely important people for the ethnologist, and from them the Hottentots cannot be dissociated physically or culturally; hence the composite name “Khoisan” adopted by the ...

South African authorities on Monday cleared a camp of the Khoisan community squatting on the grounds of the government headquarters in Pretoria for six years to demand recognition as the country's ...

South African authorities evicted a Khoisan community camp from the grounds of the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Monday after they had been squatting there for six years. The Khoisan, including the ...