TUCSON, Ariz. — A Q-tip, a tissue and a pizza crust. To investigators, this seemingly innocuous trash was DNA-laden treasure, helping crack the cases of the University of Idaho murders, the Golden ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Investigators looking to track down Nancy Guthrie’s suspected kidnappers are turning to a relatively new technology that has been attributed to solving some of the most prolific ...

Othram, a forensic DNA lab in The Woodlands, confirms they are in talks with all law enforcement working the Guthrie case. FOX 26's Sally MacDonald spoke to Othram co-founder Kristen Mittelman about ...

TULSA, Okla. — An Oklahoma inmate will stay behind bars after the Court of Criminal Appeals upheld his conviction. The case is important because it involves a type of DNA testing that had never been ...

Allegheny County’s longest cold case for an unidentified victim has been solved using DNA technology. On Wednesday, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office announced the body of an unknown ...

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery. By Carl Zimmer In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. It’s been more than 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci died. Yet, in those intervening ...

A Danish research group has designed proteins that search for specific DNA sequences and produce light if they find them. A light that a phone's camera easily captures Imagine a container of tomatoes ...

Two Michigan men have been charged after one of the men allegedly used the other to impersonate him in a court-ordered DNA paternity test. According to the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office, Mark ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Cold cases could be stalled even longer after Ancestry.com's recent change. The DNA and genealogy site clarified its terms and conditions, saying "not to use the services in ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: We are generating staggering amounts of data every day. Data centers just can’t keep up with the demand. With data storage needs expected to soar in ...