Media, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Newly tested DNA evidence from the 1997 killing of a 70-year-old Pennsylvania woman indicates she was sexually assaulted and fatally beaten by an unknown man – and not by ...

"The study is both to check if there are convicted felons that should be in the database, but also to improve the system," ...

QIAGEN chooses Bode Technology as its exclusive global commercial partner to accelerate use of GEDmatch PRO genealogy database in law enforcement and identification of human remains // Collaboration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a Hartford courtroom on Tuesday morning, prosecutors will begin presenting evidence in a case that went cold for years — a ...

Short tandem repeats (STRs), also known as microsatellites, are the primary markers of forensic genetics for developing investigative leads in criminal cases and humanitarian efforts. Their variation ...

The Nagoya High Court on Aug. 30 sounded the alarm about the current situation where anyone could be treated as a criminal ...

An arrest was made after DNA evidence linked a man to a 2018 sexual assault case that remained unsolved for more than seven ...

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 ...

Researchers developed a forensic proteomics workflow that identified the species origin of hair using protein biomarkers ...

Here's a scenario: police take a blood sample from a crime scene. They compare the DNA to that of convicted criminals, but get no match. But they find someone with similar DNA, and that leads them to ...

Fire devastates communities and families, and it makes identification of victims challenging. In the aftermath of the wildfire that swept through Lahaina, Hawaii, officials are collecting DNA samples ...