Through dogged investigative work and the application of new technology, North Aurora Police announced they have solved a cold case that's more than 45 years old. Kathy Halle was only 19 years old ...

A woman who was killed more than 30 years ago is no longer a Jane Doe. The Queens district attorney’s office announced Monday that it used DNA testing to determine that a woman whose body was found in ...

The remains of three more of the thousands of victims killed during the 9/11 attacks have been identified, nearly 25 years after terrorists flew commercial airliners into Manhattan’s iconic twin ...

Evidence derived from cutting-edge DNA technology that prosecutors say points directly at Rex Heuermann being the Gilgo Beach serial killer will be admissible at his trial, a Suffolk County judge ...

Recent scientific breakthroughs have transformed the once-dismissed non-coding DNA, or “junk DNA,” into a targeted weapon ...

Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun, have developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for ...

Ramsey believes genealogy research may help find the killer. On the day after Christmas in 1996, John and Patsy Ramsey woke up to discover their 6-year-old daughter, JonBenét, a child beauty queen, ...

Some genetic disorders—such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and Tay Sachs disease—involve many mutations in a person's genome, ...

This collection of stories examines how DNA and modern genealogy tools are helping resolve unsolved cases in Fort Worth. Recent breakthroughs include the identification of Melissa Highsmith, who ...

Miami University’s Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics (CBFG) has become one of the first institutions in the region to acquire the PacBio VEGA Benchtop System — a cutting-edge DNA ...

CHARLOTTE — Dulaine Lotharp, 55, has been arrested and charged in connection with a 32-year-old sexual assault cold case. The case dates back to 1993 and 1994, when two separate sexual assaults ...