Over 50 years ago, a baby was found in a black trash bag inside a Columbus County landfill. For decades, the baby went by “Baby Doe” and remained unidentified. That all changed this week when advanced ...

CHARLOTTE — New DNA technology helped the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department solve the 1990 killing of Kim Thomas, leading to an arrest 35 years after she was stabbed to death inside her Cotswold ...

VALLEY COUNTY, IDAHO, Idaho — A decades-old sexual assault cold case has been solved with the help of advanced DNA analysis, according to the Valley County Sheriff's Office (VCSO). The victim reported ...

For decades, scientists viewed the genome of a newly fertilized egg as a structural "blank slate"—a disordered tangle of DNA waiting for the embryo to wake up and start reading its own genetic ...

DNA is the blueprint of life. Genes encode proteins and serve as the body’s basic components. However, building a functioning organism also requires precise instructions about when, where, and how ...

Several Central Texas fire departments have adopted a new wildfire risk modeling tool to help firefighters better prepare and mitigate wildfire threats. READ MORE ...

Three weeks after Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her Tucson home, investigators have revealed that DNA recovered from gloves found near the scene does not match DNA located inside the residence. For ...

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in developing an artificial DNA base pair that is based on a different chemical force than natural genetic material. While the common natural DNA ...

More than four decades after a teenager was murdered in California, DNA found on a discarded cigarette has helped authorities catch her killer. Sarah Geer, 13, was last seen leaving her friend’s ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Investigators looking to track down Nancy Guthrie’s suspected kidnappers are turning to a relatively new technology that has been attributed to solving some of the most prolific ...

A pregnant woman who was killed nearly 46 years ago in Ventura County was finally identified as Maricela Rocha Parga, the sheriff’s office announced on Monday. On July 18, 1980, the body of a young ...