CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Forensic genetic genealogy has become an important tool for law enforcement agencies across the country, including Cincinnati Police. Now, more local, state and federal ...

Forensic expert reveals how rapid DNA genetic genealogy could revolutionize crime solving, making it faster and cheaper than traditional detective work.

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 ...

For nearly four decades, the murder of Rhonda Marie Fisher haunted investigators in Douglas County, Colorado. Fisher, a ...

It is possible to retrieve forensically relevant information from human DNA in household dust. A North Carolina State University-led study found it is possible to retrieve forensically relevant ...

BOSTON (Reuters Life!) - A powerful forensic search tool known as familial DNA is gaining clout for its ability to identify suspects when all else fails. Recently adopted in the state of Virginia and ...

It was in August 1979, while searching for arrowheads inside Idaho’s Civil Defense Caves – ancient lava tubes running from Yellowstone National Park, partly repurposed as a cavernous fallout shelter ...

DNA evidence has revolutionized forensic science in the past few years, cracking open cold cases and bringing both convictions and exonerations. The same techniques help archaeologists and ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Investigators using DNA for identification of World Trade Center attacks victims had to find new methods for analyzing thousands of bone and tissue samples, innovations that are ...

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