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It was the kind of lawsuit that would only happen in Florida.

The pitch was a skincare routine designed especially for me, genetically optimized to give me the skin I was “born…

Liza Lizarraga has spent hours combing through paper and digital archives to track her family’s history the…

I was crawling around on the floor, chasing my cat, Avalanche, as she artfully wriggled away from me over and over…

Dog may be man’s best friend, and even genetically similar to humans, to boot, but there are enough key differences…

When investigators revealed last week that a genealogy website had played a major role in catching alleged Golden…

Jeffrey Tibbetts prepped for implantation and scrubbed in, methodically sudsing up to his elbows, scraping the dirt…

The identity of the Golden State Killer, a notorious serial killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s,…

Depression is a tricky beast. Symptoms vary widely from person to person, as does the response to treatment. But…

For more than three decades, the nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing has run America’s organ transplant…

In what will undoubtedly be the largest genomic sequencing effort of all time, an international consortium of…

Guided by the work of Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the the twisted-ladder structure…

This year, the Food and Drug Administration is joining stoners the world over in celebrating 4/20.

Ever since researchers first discovered that bacterial immune systems could be hijacked to selectively change DNA in…

In the future, tattoos may no longer be mere decorative statements for the body, but useful biomedical devices that…

Science textbooks will tell you that the human body has just a couple hundred types of cells. But efforts to catalog…

When you mail off a sample of your spit to find out about your ancestry, companies like 23andMe compare your DNA to…

Recent advancements in science and medicine have put cures within reach for diseases that have long plagued…

The Food and Drug Administration has launched a criminal investigation into an offshore herpes research trial that…

India’s eighth largest state is seeking to build a blockchain-based DNA database of all 50 million of its citizens.