Scientists in Sweden have created a simple, 3D-printed microscope, which when attached to a smartphone can be used to analyze DNA.

The explosion killed at least 32 people at a fireworks market in Tultepec, near the Mexican capital, on Tuesday.

The world's first baby has been born using a new "three person" fertility technique.

A new study conducted at the University of Central Lancashire suggests that athletes using DNA-matched training are expected to perform three times better than the ones without such programs.

The culprit of a deadly blast in Ankara was Turkish-born, not Syrian, says a security official.

The body of a senior Iranian diplomat who was missing since the Hajj stampede in Saudi Arabia will be returned home on Saturday. Ghazanfar Roknabadi’s body has been identified by his family and also through DNA tests. Iranian Hajj officials say Saudi officials had buried the body soon after the deadly incident. At least 465 Iranian citizens died on September 24, after organizers blocked two main streets in Mina, on the outskirts of the Holy City of Mecca. Saudi Arabia has put the death toll at nearly 770, but reports point to figures as high as 4000.

Russia is to exhume Tsar Alexander III, the last Russian emperor's father, for DNA testing to affirm the identities of two bodies believed to be Nicholas II's children.

Iranian researchers design and develop a new electrochemical biosensor for Hepatitis B virus DNA.

The remains of two Japanese climbers missing since 1970 are found in Switzerland.

Russian scientists discover a new method of DNA repair by which neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s may be cured.