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Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to ...

It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

Discover how PayPal’s bid to become a Utah-chartered industrial bank could transform small business lending in the U.S.

Attorney General Peter Neronha said in a situation of chaos, witnesses are going to have different accounts. Right now, they are reconciling those accounts.

JABSOM Cell and Molecular Biology researcher Dr. Jesse Owens has spent the better part of two decades chasing a vision that ...