DNA

A new “Jurassic Park” movie is coming out next year, the latest installment of the blockbuster series all about the dangerous hubris in trying to bring dinosaurs back from extinction. Paleogeneticist Beth Shapiro says the science may be flawed, but cloning extinct species is more realistic than you may think. In fact, that work is already underway — but with the slightly friendlier woolly mammoth.

A Missouri man could be executed this fall for a crime he says he didn’t commit. How flawed is the evidence tying him to this crime, and what efforts have been taken to exonerate him?

20 years after scientists finished the sequencing of the first human genome, scientists around the world — including from the Stowers Institute in Kansas City — have taken another monumental step.

Segment 1: A genealogist tells us how she finds the stories behind our ancestry. You might think researching your ancestry is just about building your…

It took nearly 30 minutes for Eric Depradine to extract a saliva sample from his dying grandmother. Depradine, 35, of Kansas City, wanted to have his...

Eddie Lowery was a soldier stationed in Fort Riley, Kansas, in 1982, when he was sentenced to 11-years to-life in prison after being convicted of…

Segment 1: A Kansas bill aims to make the state the nation's first to check new-case DNA evidence with connection to closed cases. Currently, biological…

For some, genetic testing can provide answers to lifelong questions. But DNA also raises unique ethical conundrums when it comes to privacy and…

Segment 1: Does your DNA make you who you are?Senator Elizabeth Warren recently took a DNA test proving a percentage of her heritage is Native American.…

For some, genetic testing can provide answers to lifelong questions. But DNA also raises unique ethical conundrums when it comes to privacy and…

Missouri has at least 4,889 untested rape kits that have yet to be submitted for DNA testing, according to a state audit. In 2017, crime labs around the…

Exactly six months after 18-year-old Southwest High School honor student Daizsa Bausby was found dead in a motel room, Jackson County prosecutors have…