The DNA tissue sample taken from a baby left in an Iowa City landfill in 1992 was so "degraded and contaminated" that traditional DNA testing couldn't help investigators identify the infant or his mother.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham's Bladder Cancer Research Center have used a new method to detect chemical changes in the DNA in an individual's urine sample; epigenetic changes, called methylation.

Researchers at Beijing Genomics and IMDEA Nanociencia institutes have introduced a novel method that could significantly accelerate efficiency and reduce the cost of handling fluidics in DNA sequencing.

A $49,500 educational matching grant from Beckman-Coulter, Inc. will allow the biology department at Calvin College to purchase a capillary electrophoresis DNA sequencer. The state-of-the-art DNA sequencer, which replaces a 10-year old model, will give ...

A traditional cassette tape holds roughly 10 to 12 songs on each side, but 328 feet of this DNA cassette tape could hold the same amount of data in over 3 billion songs. The prototype’s total capacity is 36 petabytes of data, the same size as 36,000 terabyte hard drives.

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient remains excavated at archeological sites near the country’s capital Bogota.

About a dozen studies in the past five years have made claims linking nearly every type of human cancer with the presence of microbiomes, "communities" of bacteria, viruses and fungi that live in or on people's bodies.