Distinguishing legally from illegally traded wildlife products using the size, shape and origin of the sample often fails when samples are of young individuals or wildlife parts, such as a teeth, ...

Crime documentaries and courtroom dramas offer only a glimpse into the complex world of forensic science. While DNA analysis plays a key role in identifying suspects or victims, the scope of ...

The human genome consists of 3 billion base pairs, and when a cell divides, it takes about seven hours to complete making a copy of its DNA. That's almost 120,000 base pairs per second. At that ...

Tonight on "NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt," Morgan Radford visits a police department using a new DNA tool that could revolutionize police investigations, but is ...

CRISPR-Cas9 has been editing the human genome for the past decade. Although the types of edits have varied, an unsolved challenge has been the integration of large pieces of DNA without ...