Advances in DNA sequencing technology help forensic biologists identify suspects where traditional DNA profiling has failed, ...

A teenage boy murdered and buried in a shallow grave has been identified nearly four decades later as Rogelio Morales ...

A skull fragment found in Burlington over a decade ago has been identified as belong to Arthur Weiss, who died at 87 in New York.

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build molecular-scale devices. By borrowing ideas from traditional robotics and combining them ...

CRISPR is a powerful DNA-editing tool that has underpinned huge advancements in human health care in the last decade. It is a precision tool, but is not perfect, and misplaced DNA edits can compromise ...

Nearly nine years after a human skull was discovered in rural Calhoun County, investigators are still searching for answers about the unidentified man and how he died. Authorities say the cranium of a ...

Officials say they’ve identified a human skull discovered nearly four decades ago in Bristol as belonging to Warren Kuchinsky, a Plymouth man last known to be alive in the mid-1970s. His identity was ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there. By Carl Zimmer One of ...

Investigators in Nancy Guthrie's disappearance are considering DNA genealogy databases as a potential tool to identify suspects, similar to past cases that utilized this technology.

TUCSON, AZ (AP/AZFamily) — Authorities trying to solve the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie say they might tap DNA genealogy databases, the same step that police took to unravel a decades-old series of ...

Only a few years ago, Tuesday’s announcement that a glove believed to be connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, had no match in a DNA database would have been a dead end.

Although DNA evidence collected in the Nancy Guthrie investigation has yet to yield matches, law enforcement is still bracing for results that could expose cracks in the southern Arizona case ...