At a time when large-scale human genome analysis was not yet common, the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) ...

Unisys won a six-year contract worth as much as $50 million to develop the FBI’s Next-Generation Combined DNA Index System (NGCODIS) which will include advanced database search and analysis ...

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 ...

In nearly four years, a national DNA database — which is shared with law enforcement agencies nationwide — added more than 1.5 million noncitizen profiles. (Elana Marie / For De Los ) Routine ...

France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases.

Investigators are broadening their DNA searches beyond government databases and demanding genetic information from companies that do ancestry research for customers. Two major companies that research ...

From social media appeals to facial recognition and sonar searches, new technology is revolutionising how police locate the ...

Tyrone Williams raped, sodomized, sexually assaulted and robbed more than seven women across three boroughs over a span of five months, starting in 2003. Williams was eventually captured and sentenced ...

The Alaska Scientific Crime Detection Lab acquired a forensic tool used to test DNA from bones and teeth this summer.

DNA evidence led to the indictment of Michael Harris, already incarcerated on unrelated charges, in a 2000 kidnapping and ...

Debbie Dorian's 1996 murder went cold, but DNA evidence would finally put her killer behind bars and unravel a shocking tale ...