The oldest human remains ever found in Northern Britain have been identified as a young female three years after being discovered in a Cumbrian cave. Excavated at Heaning Wood Bone Cave in Cumbria's ...

Scientists are once again testing shrimp served at Lowcountry restaurants to determine whether seafood labeled as local was ...

John McDonagh (51) first launched an appeal in 2007 against his conviction for rape and murder of Siobhan Hynes (17) in 1998 ...

The Ames Campus students took a trip to the Dolan DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

New tech lets scientists extract DNA from old grasshopper collections without damaging the specimens. This unlocks evolutionary data previously inaccessible due to DNA degradation.

In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a ...

Primerdesign, part of the Novacyt Group, has launched the exsig® Mag RapidBead Pro Extraction kit, a magnetic bead-based system for rapid nucleic acid purification.

In an April 2025 Ask the Expert webinar, Eric Bishop (vice president of research and development at Cygnus Technologies) described the company’s AccuRes quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) ...

2 German Center for Infection Research, Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Munich and Heidelberg sites, Germany Objectives A major goal of curative hepatitis B virus (HBV) treatments is the reduction or ...

PHOTOS COURTESY HAWAII POLICE DEPARTMENT Dana Ireland, left, Albert Lauro Jr. PHOTOS COURTESY HAWAII POLICE DEPARTMENT Dana Ireland, left, Albert Lauro Jr. Hawaii County police went beyond FBI and U.S ...

NEW YORK – Researchers at Cornell University have developed a heat-free alkaline DNA extraction technique that could help expand access to tissue-based molecular testing in low-resource areas starting ...

Cell-free DNA (cfDNA), a burgeoning class of molecular biomarkers, has been extensively studied across a variety of biomedical fields. As a key component of liquid biopsy, cfDNA testing is gaining ...