Police said the skull of a man was found in the woods in Bristol back in 1986 and has been unidentified ever since.

For nearly five decades, the mysterious disappearance of Peter Adams, who was just 20 at the time, went unsolved.

Alabama is still pushing to execute a man despite “incontrovertible DNA evidence” proving that he is innocent, according to a new brief filed this week by the Innocence Project. Last summer, a federal judge in Montgomery ordered a new trial for Alabama Death Row inmate Christopher Barbour.

A fleeting DNA fold called i‑DNA can switch cancer‑related genes on and off, revealing a hidden structural weak point that future therapies might exploit to collapse tumors.

Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), used to treat genetic diseases, can affect how cells repair damage to their DNA. This is shown in a new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications.

Around the world, scientists are exploring an unexpected solution to the growing data crisis: storing digital information in synthetic DNA. The idea is simple but powerful—DNA is one of the most compact,

A baseball cap dropped on a nightclub floor helped investigators identify the suspected shooter in the recent double murder at Status nightclub.

Of the 32,431 Met Police officers, 17,458 have their DNA on the force's elimination database, which is 53.8%, while 25,802 have their fingerprints on the elimination database - 79.6%. In November 2024, the London Standard reported that around half of the Met's officers could be missing from its own DNA and fingerprint databases..