By expanding federal agents' authority to collect the DNA of immigrant detainees, the government has risked violating ...

Researchers at a Harvard Medical School laboratory are uncertain how they will continue supporting a large public genetic database after its primary source of funding expired last month.

Texas investigators identified a Bastrop County serial rapist through DNA testing, solving assaults from 1997 to 2005 after ...

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.

A 2007 home invasion and sexual assault case was solved nearly 20 years later using advanced DNA genealogy, authorities say.

For years, Customs and Border Protection agents have been quietly harvesting DNA from American citizens, including minors, and funneling the samples into an FBI crime database, government data shows.

Tyrone Williams raped, sodomized, sexually assaulted and robbed more than seven women across three boroughs over a span of five months, starting in 2003. Williams was eventually captured and sentenced ...

Fred Martinez is 10 years into a 12-year sentence for indecency with a child on a Texas beach in 2014. But DNA evidence ...

After nearly three decades of investigation, DNA evidence was used to positively identify a now-deceased suspect who law ...

Investigators are broadening their DNA searches beyond government databases and demanding genetic information from companies that do ancestry research for customers. Two major companies that research ...

To help mark the show's 1000th episode, President Obama gave a remarkable interview last weekend with America's Most Wanted. There, host John Walsh floated the idea of a national DNA database--and the ...