DNA fingerprinting has been hailed by law-enforcement officials as the 20th century’s most important breakthrough in forensic science. They are eager to use the new technology to identify and ...

Lifestyle, or put another way 'bad habits', is one of the textbook explanations for why some people are at higher risk for cancer. We often hear that smoking increases our risk of developing lung ...

The effectiveness of DNA testing and searches of the national DNA database is well-known. Over the last three decades, 137 wrongly convicted people were exonerated through DNA database “hits,” which ...

US Customs and Border Protection collected DNA samples from less than 40% of illegal immigrants stopped at the nation’s borders in 2022, preventing federal law enforcement from solving violent ...

Schools in Texas are providing parents with free DNA and fingerprint identification kits, as part of a program to help identify missing children. While the law that created the program does not say ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The American Civil Liberties Union, the Innocence Project, the ACLU of Arkansas, Hogan Lovells US LLP, and Little Rock attorney John Tull today filed a Freedom of Information Act ...

U.S. border agents will soon begin a widespread program to gather DNA samples from immigrants who enter the country illegally and are in federal custody, according to two administration officials. The ...

A tenacious retired detective and advances in photo recognition technology helped Suffolk County cops make an arrest in the brutal cold case killing of a beloved 88-year-old widow 21 years ago, ...