The Gastonia Police Department has become the first law enforcement agency in Gaston County to receive a $629,000 grant ...

Texas is using DNA technology and offering a $6,000 reward to solve the 1980 Christmas double murder of a mother and her ...

After 46 years of mystery, St. Petersburg Police have used advanced DNA technology to identify their final "John Doe" as ...

Nearly two decades after a 16-year-old girl was found strangled to death in a field near Highway 99, the Tulare County ...

Only a few years ago, Tuesday’s announcement that a glove believed to be connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, had no match to a DNA database would have been a dead end.

We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

With the reward now surpassing $200,000, investigators in Tucson are turning to advanced forensic genetic genealogy after finding no matches in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s CODIS database, ...

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

Investigative genetic genealogy, which is a relatively new forensic tool, is now being considered in the search for answers in the Nancy Guthrie case.

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing ...

Nancy Guthrie was taken from her home in Tucson, Arizona, more than two weeks ago and remains missing. Authorities have yet ...

Gastonia Police Department receives $629,000 federal grant secured by Congressman Tim Moore for Rapid DNA technology, a first in Gaston County.