Researchers have developed a new technique for making metamaterials with nanoscale structures that can be tuned with strange optical properties. Using gold nanoparticles attached to strands of DNA ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – There’s a new ...

Many men might not even think to do it. But Color Genomics founder and president Othman Laraki has had himself tested for the BRCA pair of genes, which are widely known to correlate to breast cancer ...

An international team has developed a novel tool to accurately predict eye, hair and skin color from human biological material -- even a small DNA sample -- left, for example, at a crime scene or ...

Imagine if criminals conveniently left calling cards at crime scenes that helped describe the culprits. Barring video or photographic evidence, the closest investigators have come to this dream has ...

The government of the German state of Bavaria has just passed a new law that will give police much more leeway when it comes to using DNA to track down a suspect, Science reports. Until now, law ...

INDIANAPOLIS - An international team, led by scientists from the School of Science at IUPUI and Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam in the Netherlands, has developed a novel tool to ...