When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Around the world, DNA analysis is the gold standard for identifying human remains following these ...

Researchers have found that forensic "DNA mixture analysis" is less accurate for certain groups of people with lower genetic diversity, which could falsely link them to crime scenes. When you purchase ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

PORTAGE, Wis. (WKOW) -- Physical evidence was introduced to the courtroom on day three of the State v. Larry Manthe trial. The prosecution called up crime lab experts to analyze fingerprints and DNA ...

The Pennsylvania State Police have launched a rapid DNA analysis program, distributing technology that will allow investigators to test samples outside a lab and get results in as few as 90 minutes.

A team of researchers out of Stanford (Calif.) University developed a cryptographic method called “genome cloaking” to protect participants’ privacy during DNA analyses, Wired reports. Here are four ...

n the mid-1980s, tragedy struck two villages in Leicestershire, England. In two separate instances, three years apart, two teenage girls were raped and murdered on their way home from school. On ...

Kary B. Mullis, a biochemist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a way to analyze DNA easily and cheaply and thus pave the way for major advances in medical diagnostics, ...

FREEHOLD - A defense expert testified Monday that the computer software used to analyze DNA implicating Paul Caneiro in the murders of his brother's family has little usefulness and produces results ...

The cause was heart and respiratory failure brought on by pneumonia, his wife, Nancy Cosgrove Mullis, said. The process for analyzing DNA that Mullis invented is called polymerase chain reaction, or ...