Last week, Gov. Rick Perry granted the state's first posthumous pardon to a man who was innocent of a crime for which he had spent 13 years in prison. DNA testing cleared Tim Cole of a rape he did not ...

Unlock the hidden story of your pet’s breed and health through the power of DNA testing. (Green Shoot Media photo) You’ll start with a swab, then a company will begin making comparisons to learn more.

Understanding genetics has long been an integral part of medicine and human care, and today, the same precision and individual approach are beginning to be actively implemented in veterinary medicine.

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...