DNA

Sheriff Alfred Montgomery’s legal team filed a motion to dismiss the charge earlier this week, citing a 2016 court order and paternity test.

The St. Louis socioeconomic and racial dividing line known as the Delmar Divide separates people, and new research suggests it also segregates wildlife.

Marcellus Williams will get a hearing on Aug. 21, at the request of St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell. The prosecutor’s office has filed a motion to vacate the conviction after reviewing the case and discovering “clear and convincing evidence” that Williams is innocent.

The fungus among us is largely undiscovered. DNA samples could change that.

A Trenton man was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor. After nearly 78 years, his remains are finally coming home.Navy electrician’s mate 3rd Class…

Originally published on Wednesday, February 26, 2014. Updated to include audio from St. Louis on the Air.It cost billions of dollars and took more than a…

The top legal issue in the day’s news was the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action at the University of Texas. Instead of the expected…

A Utah biotech company argued that its discovery of two genes highly associated with breast and ovarian cancer deserved to be patented. A unanimous court disagreed. Researchers, medical groups and patients had been pushing for the patent to be denied.

The world is full of data — and that's a problem. We have to find a place to store all those digital photos, tax records and unfinished novels. British scientists have demonstrated a possible solution: They've stored all of Shakespeare's sonnets on several small stretches of DNA.

Pediatric leukemia is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. There are about 3,000 new cases in the United States every year, typically in children…