ARVADA, Colo. (KDVR) — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is facing what it calls a historic backlog as victims wait for test results that could lead to justice. FOX31 got rare exclusive access to a ...

This summer Assistant Professor of Biology Shantá Hinton organized an outreach program entitled Open Lab that brought students of all ages into the world of DNA extraction. Young children and their ...

Standard genetic sequencing approaches can tell you a lot about the genetic makeup and activity in a sample, like a piece of tissue or drop of blood. But they don’t tell you where specific genetic ...

Defense attorneys in the Scott Peterson trial have called mitochondrial DNA evidence questionable science, frustrating experts and putting under a microscope what has become a mainstream tool of ...

It’s not every day that something from the 17 th century gets radically reinvented. But this month, a team from the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard took aim at one of the most iconic pieces of lab ...

Researchers use laboratory tools every day to help them make groundbreaking discoveries. Read on to find out which ...