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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...