Here's a scenario: police take a blood sample from a crime scene. They compare the DNA to that of convicted criminals, but get no match. But they find someone with similar DNA, and that leads them to ...

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 ...

The FBI has approved a new DNA database system that will expedite the process of matching various DNA samples to identities. Law enforcement booking stations will use the new Thermo Fisher Scientific ...

The unidentified man’s DNA profile was uploaded to the GEDmatch database, but all of his DNA matches there turned out to be ...

This analysis uses public DNA databases, like GEDmatch, to find relatives of people whose DNA samples were collected at crime scenes. Neither Parabon NanoLabs nor the police department has confirmed ...

DIVIDED IN A FIGHT PITTING PRIVACY AGAINST CUTTING-EDGE DNA TECHNOLOGY. EMILY: IT’S A BATTLE THAT’S BEEN BEHIND THE SCENES UNTIL NOW. 5 INVESTIGATES’ KAREN ANDERSON HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THIS STORY FOR ...

Donna Green held her infant son for only five days before he was kidnapped from her Atlanta home by a woman who had befriended the teen mom at the hospital. More than four decades later, Green still ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — The Legal Aid Society filed a class-action lawsuit Monday against city officials and the NYPD over the illegal seizure and storage of DNA material by police from New Yorkers who are ...

23andMe, born from the techno-optimism of the Human Genome Project, revolutionized direct-to-consumer genetic testing. But with its valuation now in freefall, mounting layoffs and its board resigning ...

A private company was thanked by cops for helping identify a suspect in the Faith Hedgepeth case. But is law enforcement’s use of public DNA databases ethical? This is the N&O’s special report. When ...