Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical ...

With a lack of ancient human bone excavations in the region, finding human DNA within this piece of chewed-up birch bark was ...

More than three decades after the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Roxbury, investigators say DNA evidence allegedly links a ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project, officially launched in the UK, aims to construct human DNA from the ground up.

The project will begin by making parts of a human chromosome, testing them in skin cells. Alongside the scientific work, a ...

Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...

The remains of Marvin Majors, a homeless individual from Oklahoma, were identified after his mostly skeletal remains were ...

Cutting-edge new DNA analysis of skeletons has revealed the people in this prehistoric outpost of civilisation may have ...