"At first, I kind of laughed … But they were serious. I could just see the seriousness in their faces." In this book excerpt, Lise Barnéoud explores the limitations of DNA testing.

We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, so we put it to the test.

In a French criminal trial, conventional DNA analysis couldn’t distinguish between twin brothers, but emerging scientific methods could help in such cases.

The firefighters union in Kentwood held an event Thursday providing precancer screenings using a DNA test. The U.S. Fire Administration says firefighters have a 9% higher

Nancy Guthrie has been missing for over 30 days now, and as the days mount up, cops appear to be no nearer to finding answers, until now.

An audit of the Colorado Bureau of Investigations’ DNA evidence testing took a deep dive into the work the agency is doing to decrease its backlog of sexual assault kits.

More than a decade after a woman was kidnapped outside of a Tamarac apartment and sexually assaulted, one of the suspects has been identified as a result of renewed DNA testing.

More witnesses took the stand Friday in Tavaris Jackson’s murder trial, including a latent print examiner, a forensic biologist and an EMS paramedic. Sarah Rambadt, a forensic scientist in the biology unit at the Michigan State Police (MSP) Grand Rapids Forensic Laboratory,