QIAGEN chooses Bode Technology as its exclusive global commercial partner to accelerate use of GEDmatch PRO genealogy database in law enforcement and identification of human remains // Collaboration ...

The Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs awarded grants totaling more than $145 million on January 16 to fund crime laboratories, decrease DNA backlogs, support basic and applied forensic ...

Forensic DNA analysis has fundamentally changed criminal investigations, providing an unprecedented level of accuracy in identifying suspects, exonerating the innocent, and solving cold cases. And ...

Investigators said the remaining 15 bodies are now undergoing forensic genealogy, a process that uses public DNA databases to ...

This volume offers recommendations for handling DNA samples, performing calculations, and other aspects of using DNA as a forensic tool. It addresses two major areas - determination of DNA profiles ...

SPRINGFIELD — The Hampden District Attorney’s office is asking for the public’s help to bring justice for families who lost loved ones in violent attacks that are decades old, with their killers still ...

For decades, Rebecca “Becky” Burke’s family feared the worst. The Smyrna native had lost contact with many of them in the 1980s after falling deeper into substance abuse, sparked by prescription ...

Last November, California voters passed a $3 billion proposition, fondly known as Prop. 71, to fund stem cell research. Another science-related proposition passed at the same time, but without the ...

Virginia authorities have launched a massive review of the state's DNA database after discovering that thousands of felons may have skirted a legal requirement to submit genetic samples, partly ...