Artificial intelligence is no longer a side project in policing, it is rapidly becoming the engine that drives how detectives ...

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 ...

A national DNA database helped police identify a suspect in the decades-old cases.

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It’s a forensics technique that has helped crack several cold cases. Across the country, investigators are analyzing DNA and using basic genealogy to find relatives of potential suspects in the hope ...

Investigators are looking to identify the young girl whose skull was found in a Seabrook business in the 1990s.

A local authority in Dun Laoghaire has taken a significant step toward addressing the persistent issue of dog fouling in public spaces by approving plans for a DNA-based identification system. The ...

Retired service members donated genetic material to a DNA database to help answer health questions for all Americans. The Trump administration is... One of the world's biggest genetic databases ...