Brian Ward, PhD, of Myriad Genetics, explains the difficult task of identifying the victims of the World Trade Center disaster in New York City.

But as consumer DNA testing companies began cashing in on the public’s interest in ancestry, they began offering the service at prices around $100, encouraging many people – including Native ...

Bode Technology, the largest private DNA forensic lab in the country based out of Virginia helped the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office solve the 21-year-old cold case.

Nuclear DNA testing is common in forensic science, according to Michael Marciano, director of research for Syracuse University's Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute.

The unfolding scandal—potentially one of the largest in the history of forensic DNA testing, according to experts—is throwing Colorado’s criminal justice system into chaos.

Latest Headlines Forensic DNA-testing facility helps ID remains found in Humboldt County An undated photo shows Milton Leon Pelligrini Jr.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is gearing up for an expensive assessment of its forensics labs after former forensic scientist Yvonne “Missy” Wood manipulated DNA tests.

The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office announced this week that a set of remains were identified through forensic DNA testing as belonging to Kay Josephine Medin, who had been missing since the ...