Over 50 years ago, a baby was found in a black trash bag inside a Columbus County landfill. For decades, the baby went by “Baby Doe” and remained unidentified. That all changed this week when advanced ...

CHARLOTTE — New DNA technology helped the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department solve the 1990 killing of Kim Thomas, leading to an arrest 35 years after she was stabbed to death inside her Cotswold ...

VALLEY COUNTY, IDAHO, Idaho — A decades-old sexual assault cold case has been solved with the help of advanced DNA analysis, according to the Valley County Sheriff's Office (VCSO). The victim reported ...

An identical twin commits a crime and leaves their DNA at the scene. Can DNA testing reveal which twin is the culprit? This question reportedly came up in a case in France last month, in which the DNA ...

MASSIVELY parallel sequencing (MPS) has transformed forensic DNA analysis by allowing scientists to examine multiple DNA markers simultaneously and in far greater detail than earlier methods. Despite ...

DNA is the blueprint of life. Genes encode proteins and serve as the body’s basic components. However, building a functioning organism also requires precise instructions about when, where, and how ...

Several Central Texas fire departments have adopted a new wildfire risk modeling tool to help firefighters better prepare and mitigate wildfire threats. READ MORE ...

Syndex Bio, announced the introduction of its proprietary mcPCR™ (methyl-copying PCR) platform at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) conference in Orlando, Florida. mcPCR enables ...

A new light-based sensor can spot incredibly tiny amounts of cancer biomarkers in blood, raising the possibility of earlier and simpler cancer detection. The technology merges DNA nanotechnology, ...

A pregnant woman who was killed nearly 46 years ago in Ventura County was finally identified as Maricela Rocha Parga, the sheriff’s office announced on Monday. On July 18, 1980, the body of a young ...

DNA storage has always attracted a lot of interest due of its potential density and longevity - and researchers have long been exploring ways to encode digital information into DNA strands that can be ...