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 ...

Here's what we know about the South Florida DNA lab chosen over Quantico to analyze evidence in the Nancy Guthrie abduction.

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A retired Waco man remains in the McLennan County Jail after the Texas Rangers cold case unit and west coast investigators linked him through a DNA database to the murders of ...

GEDmatch's new "opt-in" policy went into effect on Sunday. A change to GEDmatch, a third-party genealogy site that's helped crack cold cases through user's DNA, may hinder law enforcement's ability to ...

Australians looking to learn more about their heritage through commercial ancestry websites could be helping police solve cold cases.

Genetic information company 23andMe has said that it is headed to bankruptcy court, raising questions for what happens to the DNA shared by millions of people with the company via saliva test kits.

The DNA profile of Marshawn Edwards never should have been entered into the national DNA database, his lawyers argue. But it was, and based partly on its inclusion in the database in 2018, the 26-year ...

23andMe, born from the techno-optimism of the Human Genome Project, revolutionized direct-to-consumer genetic testing. But with its valuation now in freefall, mounting layoffs and its board resigning ...