With the reward now surpassing $200,000, investigators in Tucson are turning to advanced forensic genetic genealogy after ...

The Gastonia Police Department has become the first law enforcement agency in Gaston County to receive a $629,000 grant ...

Texas is using DNA technology and offering a $6,000 reward to solve the 1980 Christmas double murder of a mother and her ...

Nearly two decades after a 16-year-old girl was found strangled to death in a field near Highway 99, the Tulare County ...

We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

Investigative genetic genealogy, which is a relatively new forensic tool, is now being considered in the search for answers in the Nancy Guthrie case.

Only a few years ago, Tuesday’s announcement that a glove believed to be connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, had no match to a DNA database would have been a dead end.

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing ...

Gastonia Police Department receives $629,000 federal grant secured by Congressman Tim Moore for Rapid DNA technology, a first in Gaston County.

Allegheny County’s longest cold case for an unidentified victim has been solved using DNA technology. On Wednesday, the ...

Scientists have discovered that DNA behaves in a surprising way when squeezed through tiny nanopores, overturning a long-held ...