DNA

Mayra Velasquez, a 42-year-old real estate agent, was charged after police said DNA evidence linked her to the stabbing more than 14 years after. The victim, Irasema Chavez, was stabbed more than 100 times.

A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as the ethical questions are thorny.

The Hispanic Organization for Genealogy and Research is hosting a Hispanic genealogy conference in Dallas this weekend.

With a skin sample from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, scientists at the Center for Genome Architecture at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston are gaining new insights into what made the animals tick. The findings could also help controversial de-extinction efforts.

Martin Santillán was 23 years old when he was arrested and charged for the murder of Damond Wittman. He was finally found actually innocent Wednesday.

With a name that sounds like futuristic fiction, Rapid DNA machines roughly the size of an office printer have helped solve rape cases in Kentucky,…

Behavior and environment are big factors in a surge in obesity. Scientists are busy trying to identify the many genes that play a role in weight gain to develop a predictive obesity test.

Ethical concerns aside, the genetic ingredients for human traits are so complex that editing a few embryonic genes is unlikely to have much effect — or achieve the fantasy of enhancing humans.

An international group of 18 prominent scientists and bioethicists is calling for countries around the world to impose a moratorium on the creation of babies whose genes have been altered in the lab.

From Texas Standard: A global controversy erupted after a Chinese scientist claimed to have used the gene-editing tool CRISPR to manipulate genes in the...

A UT Southwestern Medical Center biochemist was recently named the winner of the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his discovery of an enzyme…

As the president and Elizabeth Warren trade jabs over her Native American roots, the Cherokee Nation secretary of state tells NPR they should instead be looking into the needs of Indian Country.