In a French criminal trial, conventional DNA analysis couldn’t distinguish between twin brothers, but emerging scientific ...

Police now want to hear from anyone with information about the individuals the victim may have been with before his death.

Prosecutors at Karen Read's second murder trial on Friday focused on DNA found on items collected from the crime scene and on clothing of her Boston police officer boyfriend. Read, 45, is accused of ...

Suggested Citation: "Executive Summary." National Research Council. 1996. The Evaluation of Forensic DNA Evidence. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5141. This committee was ...

Medscape recently spoke with Brian Ward, PhD, Vice President of Operations for Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc., in Salt Lake City, Utah, about the difficult task of identifying the victims of the ...

A DNA sample taken from a rape victim in 2003 had no link to a man who was wrongly jailed for 17 years for the attack, a ...

The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office says its Forensic Science Laboratory DNA facility is now fully functional. The sheriff’s office said the lab halted DNA testing after identifying a DNA profile ...

Lance Shockley died by lethal injection last year. State courts have rejected prisoners’ requests for DNA testing in recent years.

CHARLOTTE — The Cold Case Unit with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has identified a 2016 deceased victim as Kenneth Robert McCarthy using forensic investigative genetic genealogy. The ...

Law enforcement agencies across south central Oklahoma will soon be seeing more efficient DNA testing as the Oklahoma State ...

Human remains that were discovered in 1981 in Blount County have since been identified through forensic genetic genealogical (FGG) DNA testing.