A couple who grew up around dogs adopted a "Labrador retriever mix" as their first pup, thinking it was going to be their best choice; however, his behavior didn’t quite match their expectations—and ...

Almost 20 years ago, James Randerson ordered a sequence of smallpox DNA. Smallpox is the only human disease to have ever been successfully eradicated — 46 years ago as of yesterday. It’s one of the ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The New Orleans Police Department Crime Lab recently made history by becoming fully accredited. WGNO spoke with the lab’s director about what that means and the goals for the ...

State and local law enforcement officials announced a breakthrough on a more than 25 year old cold case in Juneau this summer, thanks in part to a DNA analysis tool at the Alaska Scientific Crime ...

In the time it takes to process thousands of tips and chase down leads, serial offenders can strike again. That's why forensic expert David Mittelman is arguing the rapid DNA breakthroughs in the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - More than 500 missing and murdered children in the United States remain unidentified and unaccounted for, with many families left without answers for decades. Othram, a DNA ...

The Alaska state crime lab in Anchorage seen on May 6, 2024. State and local law enforcement officials announced a breakthrough on a more than 25 year old cold case in Juneau this summer, thanks in ...

James D. Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist and geneticist and former director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, best known for his discovery of the double helix structure of the DNA ...

IBERIA PARISH, LA. (KLFY) — A new state-of-the-art crime lab, the Bo Duhe Acadiana Criminalistics Lab, has opened in Iberia Parish, providing advanced DNA technology to assist law enforcement across ...

SAN ANTONIO – The Bexar County Crime Lab has access to the national DNA database that helps match samples and identify possible criminals. CODIS, which stands for “Combined DNA Index System,” is a ...