France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases.

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.

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

The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems.

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

SAN ANTONIO – The Bexar County Crime Lab has access to the national DNA database that helps match samples and identify possible criminals. CODIS, which stands for “Combined DNA Index System,” is a ...

The 1994 murder of Springfield, Virginia, artist Robin Warr Lawrence, 37, would go cold for decades — until DNA left on a ...

Investigators have identified Emory Earl McVay as the suspect in several Bastrop County rape cases between 1997 and 2005.

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

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

DNA evidence helped detectives with the Lubbock Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit identify a suspect they believed stabbed to death a 26-year-old man 16 years ago at a bar.