GEDmatch's new "opt-in" policy went into effect on Sunday. A change to GEDmatch, a third-party genealogy site that's helped crack cold cases through user's DNA, may hinder law enforcement's ability to ...

DNA is the molecular basis of heredity, the inherited traits that pass between generations in a person's family tree. Embodied in the sequence of base pairs, DNA carries information between ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — University of Montana student Haley Omeasoo is working to create a missing personal database, after being inspired by her high school friend who went missing. Omeasoo is a registered ...

For more than two decades, a violent sexual battery in Golden Gate remained unsolved, the suspect unknown. But after 21 years ...

Eight DNA profiles were cross-contaminated by sloppy lab work at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the Daily News has learned. Four of the profiles were entered into a federal database, CODIS, ...

While police are coy about the exact strategies used to identify killers, the judge in the Desjardins case said, “scientific ...

The United States government has collected DNA samples from upwards of 133,000 migrant children and teenagers—including at least one 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic data into a national criminal ...