By expanding federal agents' authority to collect the DNA of immigrant detainees, the government has risked violating ...

Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into ...

A Guatemalan national was arrested on Thursday after an alleged sexual assault in New Haven after DNA evidence seized at the ...

Genetic information company 23andMe has said that it is headed to bankruptcy court, raising questions for what happens to the DNA shared by millions of people with the company via saliva test kits.

Last year, I added my DNA profile to a private genealogical database, FamilyTreeDNA, and clicked “Yes” to allow the police to search my genes.

After 34 years, the Austin Police Department announced Friday it linked a suspect to the murder of four girls who were found inside a burning business in 1991. The incident was later known as the ...

TThe University of Leicester announced today that British authorities used the nation's feline DNA database (Yes, the UK has one) to convict a man of manslaughter, according to the Associated Press.

The recent bankruptcy filing of genetic testing company 23andMe, which allows users to spit in a tube and send away the sample for a detailed DNA analysis, has sparked the possibility that the data ...

A judge in New York rejected a request on 23 September to disqualify the use of cutting-edge DNA sequencing as evidence in a ...