Scientists analyzing ancient DNA from a 12,000-year-old double burial in southern Italy uncovered genetic evidence of a rare inherited growth disorder in two closely related prehistoric individuals. A ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A new study led by researchers from the University of Oregon dug into limitations of a forensic tool used at crime scenes — discovering one way that people may be incorrectly ...

A Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate.

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have identified the cannibalized remains of a senior officer who perished during an ill-fated 19th century Arctic ...

By cleverly combining new techniques for analysing DNA at the level of individual molecules, we can achieve real breakthroughs in research into ...

Researchers led by the University of Vienna and Liège University Hospital Center have identified genetic variants associated ...

A decades-old mystery was uncovered last week when DNA testing was able to identify the man whose remains were found near Paoli way back at the start of the century. The man’s name turns out to be ...