The new lab will allow Wake County to prioritize its caseload and reduce reliance on the state crime lab.

NASA astronaut Nick Hague runs an analysis with the miniPCR hardware for Genes in Space-6 during Expedition 59. This experiment explored how space radiation damages DNA and how cells repair that ...

State and county leaders began work on the $1.5 million facility after it secured funding in 2022. At the time, they said the ...

When it comes to helping NASA scientists better understand the effects of space travel on the human body, fruit flies are the heavyweights of experiments in weightlessness. Because humans and fruit ...

Forensic DNA evidence tampering is no longer theoretical: researchers showed AI-assisted code can silently alter crime-lab ...

Researchers have discovered how the protein XPD detects severe DNA damage and controls its repair. The XPD protein is a central component of our body's own "DNA repair team," known as nucleotide ...

Harvard scientists have built a silicon chip that writes DNA using electricity and water, pointing toward a cleaner future for DNA manufacturing and biotechnology.

Amid renewed calls for advanced DNA testing in the country, after the remains of the ten victims who died in the Independence ...