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Kansas City's code enforcement has closed what was known as Status Nightclub — the turquoise building at the corner of Southwest Boulevard and 28th Street. Two women, 29-year-old Eboni Silas and ...

ADRIAN WOOLFSON, scientist and founder of Genyro, has authored a brave new book, 'On the Future of Species'. Here, Woolfson examines with SUCHETA DASGUPTA the future of humanity in a world of AI ...

DNA science has helped solve criminal cases for decades. But increasingly, investigative genetic genealogy — which was first ...

DNA science has helped solve criminal cases for decades. But increasingly, investigative genetic genealogy — which was first used for cold cases — is helping to solve active cases as well.

While DNA evidence found on a glove believed to have been worn by a man suspected of abducting Nancy Guthrie didn't produce a match in the FBI's database, it could still give investigators the clues ...

The PCSD confirmed several gloves have been found during the investigation, as 13 News has already reported. But the closest gloves were around two miles from the crime scene, and the PCSD said ...

The KLF5 gene fuels growth spreading pancreatic cancer not by acquiring abnormal changes in the cancer cells' DNA but by altering chemical changes and organization of DNA.

How does our DNA store the massive amount of information needed to build a human being? And what happens when it's stored incorrectly? Jesse Dixon, MD, Ph.D., has spent years studying the way this ...

Scientists confirm meteorites contain all five DNA bases, indicating life's building blocks may have formed in space. Discover what this means for the origins of life.

Cologuard is an at-home stool DNA screening test prescribed by a clinician and processed by a lab to help screen for colorectal cancer in people at average ...