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Residents of a border district in China's mostly Muslim region of Xinjiang must now provide DNA samples when applying for passports.

• 07 июня 2016, 16:52

New DNA tests on the remains of the last tsar Nicholas II confirm their authenticity after exhuming them in a bid to end a dispute with the Orthodox Church.

• 12 ноября 2015, 13:47

DNA molecules attached to the outside of a rocket may be able survive a trip to suborbital space and back into the Earth's atmosphere at extremely high temperatures.

• 27 ноября 2014, 13:06

Napoleon's admirers will be able to carry his DNA on their wrists after a Swiss company announced its plans to sell watches containing a fragment of the emperor's hair.

• 26 ноября 2014, 13:26

Is a violent criminal born that way, or shaped by childhood experiences and circumstances?

• 28 октября 2014, 16:10

A massive gene trawl has linked over 100 DNA coding mutations to schizophrenia, yielding critical clues about what causes the illness and possibly how to treat it, scientists said

• 23 июля 2014, 10:19

The remains of 17 US service members lost in a 1952 military plane crash in Alaska have been recovered more than six decades later, officials said.

• 19 июня 2014, 12:04

A court in Argentina's Salta province Monday sentenced to 30 years in prison the man who raped and killed two young French women tourists out for a hike.

• 03 июня 2014, 10:40

Saudi Arabia has withdrawn Cadbury chocolate bars from the market for tests to ensure the products do not contain traces of pig DNA, after the banned substance was detected in Malaysia.

• 03 июня 2014, 10:18

New Zealand's iconic kiwi is most closely related to the extinct elephant bird of Madagascar rather than the Australian emu as previously thought, researchers said Thursday.

• 23 мая 2014, 23:16

Providing a DNA sample marked an emotional watershed for Han Mi-Ok -- a heart-wrenching acceptance that she was unlikely to ever see her child alive again.

• 19 апреля 2014, 14:11

Japan has finished slaughtering 112,000 chickens after confirming its first bird flu infections for three years, with authorities stepping up efforts to swiftly contain the latest outbreak, officials said Tuesday.

• 15 апреля 2014, 14:03

More than 500 male students and staff were to give DNA samples in an unprecedented operation launched Monday to uncover who raped a 16-year-old girl in the toilets of a French school.

• 14 апреля 2014, 18:41

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's wife Eva Braun may have been of Jewish descent according to DNA analysis carried out for a British television documentary, the makers said Saturday.

• 06 апреля 2014, 12:14

A US advisory board debated a controversial new technique Wednesday that would use DNA from three people to produce embryos free of a particular type of hereditary disease.

• 28 февраля 2014, 10:19

Police reportedly found human remains Tuesday in the search for a 12-year-old boy snatched by a crocodile in northern Australia, and scaled back operations to a body recovery mission.

• 29 января 2014, 10:01

"In some cases death came immediately; in others, after many days," the historian Procopius wrote as a terrifying disease scythed through Constantinople in 542 AD.

• 28 января 2014, 15:19

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan has developed a draft law to introduce fingerprinting and DNA profiling in Kazakhstan.

• 08 января 2014, 12:33

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is planning to open DNA laboratories in Kazakhstan's regions.

• 07 января 2014, 12:47

An Australian woman is suing a deli after drinking bottled water that allegedly contained semen, lawyers said Friday, with claims that DNA showed it matched the owner of the business.

• 20 декабря 2013, 15:59