Alabama’s forensic lab is using DNA testing to solve old crimes, clear sexual assault kit backlogs and identify suspects in hundreds of cases each year. Officials say the work is speeding up arrests, ...

Researchers have identified four more members of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition, one of whom was the subject of great ...

A €1 million fund has been approved for specialised genetic testing to help identify remains of missing persons, the office of the presidential commissioner said on Thursday.Officials said the new ...

Oregon State Police say the remains belong to Robert Lee Horton, 47, who had moved from Hawaii to Portland in 2004 ...

The state of Texas is sending public school students home with DNA kits designed to help their parents identify their children “in case of an emergency.” Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

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A recent move by Texas school districts to provide families with child identification and DNA kits has sparked anxiety amid the horrifying backdrop that genetic material was needed by authorities to ...

More than 20 years after skeletal remains were found in Southwest Portland, they have been positively identified as a missing ...

Murder investigators in Arizona are encountering a stubborn obstacle to solving a decades-old cold case involving an ...

The Israeli military is using DNA and dental imprints to identify victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. NPR's Ari Shapiro visits an Israeli Army base south of Tel Aviv where this work is taking place.