There's a theory that humans share 50% of our DNA with bananas. But is it really that crazy of a theory? Humans share similar DNA sequences with many different species including fruits and veggies ...

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When Steve Edsel was a boy, his adoptive parents kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in their bedroom closet. He would ask for it sometimes, poring over the headlines about his birth. Headlines ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Testimony Wednesday was all about DNA evidence in the cold case murder trial of Timothy Williams, who is accused of killing a 14-year-old girl on Thanksgiving in 1984. More witnesses ...

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WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Decades after investigators unearthed thousands of human bones and bone fragments on a suspected Indiana serial killer’s property, a renewed quest is playing out in laboratories ...