DNA

NEW YORK--A huge international effort involving more than 100 institutions and genetic tests on 200,000 people has uncovered dozens of signposts in DNA that can help reveal...

Wanting to learn some basic facts about dinosaurs, The Asahi Shimbun GLOBE and, through Twitter, some of its readers posed questions to Makoto Manabe, a senior scientist at the ...

First, the blood of a dinosaur is extracted from the body of a mosquito encased in amber to obtain genetic data, which is then spliced with frog DNA to recreate the dinosaur....

Geneticists have identified similar inherited traits between the Ainu of Hokkaido and native Okinawans, two peoples whose homelands are geographically poles apart.

The wrongful conviction of a Nepalese man for a 1997 murder in Tokyo has raised some serious questions about the criminal justice process. All the people involved need to make...

In their quest to unlock the secrets of aging well, scientists are consulting the experts--men and women who have happily and healthily reached the ripe old age of 100 or older.

In antiquity, bizarre trials were not uncommon around the world. In Europe, it was believed that the bodies of murder victims would bleed if the perpetrators approached them.