Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in DNA's shape have an important influence on gene activity and energy production.

In a TV interview, Kash Patel, the director of the F.B.I., said investigators had found physical evidence connecting the suspected gunman with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk in Utah.

A Guatemalan national was arrested on Thursday after an alleged sexual assault in New Haven after DNA evidence seized at the scene matched evidence in Texas. Officers received reports on Aug. 9 of a person being sexually assaulted while on a trail near Fort Hale Dog Park.

Before a cell divides, its DNA is replicated so that each daughter cell inherits the same genetic information. The two copies, known as "sister chromatids," are held together by a ring-shaped protein complex called cohesin until they are pulled to opposite poles of the cell in a miniature game of tug of war.

The DNA tissue sample taken from a baby left in an Iowa City landfill in 1992 was so "degraded and contaminated" that traditional DNA testing couldn't help investigators identify the infant or his mother.

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"We've never gotten this close of a relative match before and it was such a cool, unexpected connection," the owner told Newsweek.

In the summer of 1976, a man collecting moss found partial human remains in the woods about a mile south of U.S. 20 in rural Linn County. The woman had worn a leather coat with fringe, a belt adorned with the symbol of a phoenix in white and black beads and Levi’s jeans.