People with diseases caused by rare mutations have fewer options and poorer prospects than other patients despite rapid ...

Every year, thousands of murders in the United States remain unsolved. Today, there are 300,000 cold cases on the books, with thousands more added ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

Winona woman arrested for 2011 death of Baby Angel. DNA evidence ties her to the case. The baby's body was found in the ...

This next-gen forensic science, called investigating genetic genealogy, or IGG, helps track down criminal suspects through their own DNA.

A woman and her child whose remains were among other bodies discovered scattered along an oceanfront highway not far from ...

Winona County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Jennifer Nichole Baechle, 43, of Winona, on Thursday morning on charges of ...

The FBI's Investigative Genetic Genealogy Team helped Nassau police identify Tanya Denise Jackson and her daughter Tatiana Marie Dykes, thanks in part to major technological advances in DNA ...

Steven Downs, 50, is currently serving a 75-year prison sentence for Sophie Sergie’s murder and sexual assault.

The court is weighing whether a groundbreaking DNA search and excluded confession warrant overturning the 2022 conviction in ...

To investigate the archaic ancestry of the living human population, Akey and Vernot set to work searching for Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes. They developed a statistical approach to identify ...

In criminal investigations, this technique is called forensic genetic genealogy, FGG, or investigative genetic genealogy, IGG ...