The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office made a significant breakthrough in a yearlong murder investigation that had seen little ...

Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change.

FREEHOLD — When Nathaniel Adams went to a lawyer's office in Ohio to inspect the source code for computer software increasingly being used to analyze DNA evidence in criminal cases in New Jersey and ...

CODIS, which stands for “Combined DNA Index System,” is a database consisting of DNA from convicted offenders, unsolved crime ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been ...

Rex Heuermann is accused of killing seven people over a span of decades. A New York judge on Wednesday admitted DNA evidence that Suffolk County prosecutors say links alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer ...

Evidence derived from cutting-edge DNA technology that prosecutors say points directly at Rex Heuermann being the Gilgo Beach serial killer will be admissible at his trial, a Suffolk County judge ...

For years, Customs and Border Protection agents have been quietly harvesting DNA from American citizens, including minors, ...

Because the county either can’t or won’t pay for DNA testing to be done, the identity of the skull will likely remain unknown ...