Suffolk police's assistant chief constable Alice Scott said Y-chromosome Short Tandem Repeats (Y-STR) profiling was used ...

The Y-STR technique finds DNA that is passed down through the paternal side and was used to link Wright to Victoria's body (Image: Suffolk Police) Police worked with Cellmark Forensic Services which ...

A jury will begin deliberations Monday in the murder trial of Edrick Faust, accused of the 2001 slaying of UGA law student Tara Baker.

For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

This 12-mile walk is a choice for me, my sister and my niece; all of us have traveled many miles to be here today. But walking is also what people do when they have nothing left to lose.

Scientists have discovered that DNA behaves in a surprising way when squeezed through tiny nanopores, overturning a long-held ...

The state rested its case against accused killer Edrick Faust on Wednesday after testimony about DNA being found on Tara Baker's body linking Faust to the crime. The state also played the GBI's ...

New DNA technology led to the arrest of suspect in the 25-year-old slaying of University of Georgia law student Tara Baker, ...

Men tend to lose the Y chromosome from their cells as they age. But because the Y bears few genes other than for male determination, it was thought this loss would not affect health. But evidence has ...

New findings from Karolinska Institutet reveal how the gene HNRNPU coordinates several fundamental molecular processes during ...

Prospective parents are being marketed genetic tests that claim to predict which IVF embryo will grow into the tallest, smartest or healthiest child. But these tests cannot deliver what they promise.