Like any other clandestine industry, the illegal wildlife trade generates billions of dollars a year without much of a paper ...

A DNA forensic analyst from the Xiangyang Public Security Bureau, Central China's Hubei Province, identified a suspect using ...

New technology is bringing hope to family members of a woman killed almost 40 years ago. DNA testing may help solve the ...

In a crowded courtroom in Accra, a prosecutor holds up a small plastic sachet containing a brownish powder. The police ...

Forensic scientists both help solve crimes and aid in exonerating innocent people. They use scientific methods ...

California authorities have made advances in two long-running investigations — identifying human remains found in 1993 as ...

The Florida Supreme Court has ordered additional DNA analysis in the decades-old death penalty case of James Duckett, which could delay his execution further and raise questions about his conviction.

Remains of an unidentified man pulled from the Mississippi River in 1981 have been exhumed in New Madrid as new DNA analysis ...

After centuries of mystery, scientists are edging closer to uncovering Leonardo da Vinci’s biological secrets. A massive ...

DNA testing has led to over 600 exonerations since 1989, but access to post-conviction analysis is limited due to restrictive ...

Advancements in DNA and forensic genealogy have identified Allen Wayne Mosley as the suspect in Caroline Bolen's 1988 murder.