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Air Force veteran Shirlee Lewis Henkel was identified via DNA 37 years after his death in Tarrant County, solving a decades-old unidentified human remains case.
The Supreme Court granted Texas death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez the right to sue over DNA testing laws as he argues he shouldn't be given the death penalty for the 1998 murder he was convicted of.
For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman.
The hidden dna repair system that could transform cancer treatment USC Dornsife researchers discover that 'condensates' formed by the protein Nup98 help cells avoid catastrophic errors when ...
‘Shameful': DC murder case dismissed after DNA evidence lost The suspect was released after five-and-a-half years in custody awaiting trial.
A DNA Technique Is Finding Women Who Left Their Babies for Dead Genetic genealogy is identifying the mothers of deceased newborns found abandoned, shedding light on crimes that went unsolved for ...
"The country deserves to know the details of DHS's DNA collection program," Georgetown Law's Stevie Glaberson told Newsweek.
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
Britain's Princess Beatrice cut ties with the British royal family after a DNA test revealed her true paternity.
Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago.
Vitamin D supplements may help prevent the loss of telomeres, DNA sequences that shrink with aging, a large study shows. But the health effects aren’t yet clear ...
The consumer-genomics company 23andMe just sold its biobank of customer genetic data to drugmaker Regeneron for $256 million.