A devious trickster’s plot to avoid paying child maintenance by having his friend take a DNA test on his behalf backfired with both men receiving suspended jail terms. A court heard Stephen Lord’s ...

Scientists have found that twisting structures in DNA long mistaken for knots are actually something else entirely. Inside cells, DNA gets twisted, copied, and pulled apart. The twists can influence ...

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new technology for measuring how radiation damages DNA molecules. This novel technique, which passes DNA ...

After recent DNA testing raised questions, a Montgomery man who Alabama has kept on a death row for 31 years will get another shot at justice. A federal judge has ordered a new trial in the 1992 ...

Adenine was first discovered in 1885 by the German physiologist Albrecht Kossel. He isolated adenine from the pancreas of oxen and named it "adenine" derived from the Greek word "aden," meaning gland.

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In eastern China, a shocking incident unfolded when a man learned through a DNA test that neither of his two sons was his biological child, following an attack by one of them. Jiang Hongtao, 45, from ...

Kennedy, in announcing cuts to mRNA vaccine research on Aug. 5, 2025, claimed that mRNA vaccines don’t work against ...

A judge in the Gilgo Beach murders case ruled Wednesday that cutting-edge advanced DNA testing can be used in Rex Heuermann's upcoming trial on Long Island. It marks the first time such evidence could ...

Akhilesh said that while the Opposition talks about “5000 years of social inequality”, the BJP and RSS say that the existing order “is 40,000 years old”. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday ...