DNA analysis is considered the gold standard for identifying victims of mass fatalities. But how does it work?

Shandee Blackburn was murdered in 2013. Twelve years later, the fallout of botched forensic work has led to a reckoning for ...

Forensic science has deadly stakes, but half of the largest labs in the U.S. haven't adopted federal standards, including for DNA tests and guns.

Advanced forensic science helped to finally identify the remains of a man found in the Oakland Estuary nearly 17 years ago, ...

President John Dramani Mahama has confirmed that forensic reports on all eight victims of the August 6, military helicopter ...

A forensic science examiner performs an analysis at the Connecticut Forensic Science Laboratory. Some state labs face yearslong backlogs across a range of cases, including those requiring DNA and ...

Science Museum Group, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License DNA profiling has become a powerful tool in solving crimes, tracing killers, and uncovering mysteries, from historical investigations to modern criminal ...

Haryana is set to revolutionize its forensic science capabilities by establishing a new lab with advanced DNA testing.

Officials in New York named two of the victims as Ryan Fitzgerald, 26, of Floral Park, New York, and Barbara Keating, 72, of ...

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is gearing up for an expensive assessment of its forensics labs after former forensic scientist Yvonne “Missy” Wood manipulated DNA tests.

Forensic science, also known as criminalistics, is the use of scientific methods to assist professionals in the criminal justice system. It makes use of many scientific disciplines, such as ...

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