The District Attorney for the 18th Judicial District, which includes both Arapahoe and Douglas counties, sent a letter last week to dozens of prison inmates about potential issues with DNA evidence in ...

A half-century has passed since a brash, impatient and not particularly generous-minded young American biologist named James Dewey Watson arranged some cardboard cutouts at a table in an English ...

Researchers have discovered a handful of new CRISPR-Cas systems that could add to the capabilities of the already transformational gene editing and DNA manipulation toolbox. Of the new recruits, one ...

(Nanowerk News) Since the concept of optical trapping was first proposed in the 1960s and 1970s by Arthur Ashkin, researchers have pursued innovative techniques to precisely manipulate and analyze ...

The physical evidence in a 30-year-old Boulder murder case is being reviewed following the finding that a Colorado Bureau of Investigations analyst tampered with DNA testing in hundreds of cases.

Gene editing is a group of technologies that enable scientists to precisely alter an organism's DNA. These technologies allow for the addition, removal, or alteration of genetic material at specific ...

Manipulation of DNA-also called genetic engineering or genetic modification-is a process which uses lab-based technologies to alter the DNA markup of a given organism. Manipulation and subsequent ...