As 2004 begins, staff writer Valerie Strauss asked students and teachers across the country to describe their most interesting or effective assignment so far this ...

A homework assignment about DNA leaves parents and students at a Texas high school upset. This is the question assigned to ninth graders at Klein Independent High Shool in Houston. It reads, “Suzy was ...

HOUSTON (KETK) – A Houston-area high school has come under fire for a 9th-grade biology assignment that included a question about rape. Klein ISD has confirmed to KPRC that a teacher sent home a ...

A Texas school district reportedly said it is investigating the “source of the materials” after a question about rape appeared on a high school homework assignment and prompted backlash from some ...

HOUSTON – A question about rape ends up on a biology homework assignment for ninth graders at a Houston-area high school. Klein Independent School District confirms a teacher at Klein Collins High ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature.

On Wednesday, July 1 Illinois State Police (ISP) Director Brendan Kelly announced the State has achieved a 33-percent overall reduction in its biology and forensic DNA backlog. Forensic backlogs are a ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...