Velma Louise Silva Lee vanished around 2004. Her family gave up searching. Then genealogy databases gave her back her name.

The U.S. military announced the remains of U.S. Army Technician Fifth Grade Ell T. Simantz, 23, of Grand Haven, were ...

Breakthroughs in synthesis have given rise to a multi-billion dollar industry of mail-order services providing custom synthetic DNA, which has proven incredibly useful to scientists doing valuable ...

John Harris Jr., a 59-year-old resident of Manteca, was at large for more than 30 years — until investigators were able to ...

Attorney General Matt Platkin wants a judge to dismiss a public records lawsuit over NJ state police use of rapid DNA technology. (Dana DiFilippo | New Jersey Monitor) New Jersey Attorney General Matt ...

DNA testing improvements helped Phoenix police crack more unsolved violent cases, including two this week. A crime scene is ...

DNA breakthroughs are helping Phoenix police crack more unsolved cases, leading to arrests in old violent crimes.

Canadian authorities have officially solved the mystery of “woman in the well” who died around 100 years ago through DNA ...

After 30 years, Austin city leaders announced the infamous yogurt shop murders had been solved. Austin Police Chief of Police ...

Police in Austin, Texas, said DNA technology has helped them finally identify the man who killed four teenage girls at a ...

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical minefield, with fears of a generation of ‘designer babies’ with pick ‘n’ mix ...

Forensic teams have exhumed the body of Henry Bedard Jr. in Swampscott, Massachusetts to reexamine his 1974 murder.