DNA. It's what makes you unique. Unless you have an identical twin, your DNA is different from that of every other person in the world. And that's what makes DNA fingerprinting possible. Experts can ...

One morning 20 years ago, Alec Jeffreys stumbled upon DNA fingerprinting, identifying the patterns of genetic material that are unique to almost every individual. The discovery revolutionized ...

Engineers at Duke University and the New York University's Tandon School of Engineering have demonstrated a method for ensuring that an increasingly popular method of genetic identification called ...

Schools in Texas are providing parents with free DNA and fingerprint identification kits, as part of a program to help identify missing children. While the law that created the program does not say ...

Lifestyle, or put another way 'bad habits', is one of the textbook explanations for why some people are at higher risk for cancer. We often hear that smoking increases our risk of developing lung ...

New research published in Science Advances is attempting to change the way that we think about cancer. The research suggests that cancers develop more due to genetic predispositions that due to “bad” ...

Liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros received the first of 14 bombs on Monday at his home in Katonah, New York, that a man with right-wing extremist views allegedly sent to prominent Trump ...

OGDEN — Forensic experts testified Friday why they found no definitive fingerprint or DNA evidence to tie murder suspect Keshaun Puente or any other person to the shooting death of Denero Snider.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the hours before his arrest, as federal authorities zeroed in and secretly accumulated evidence, Cesar Sayoc was in his element: spinning classic and Top 40 hits in a nightclub ...

There are a lot of things scientists still don’t know about sea turtles. But researchers are starting to “fingerprint” leatherback sea turtle hatchlings to try to unlock some of those secrets. Federal ...