Prospective parents are being marketed genetic tests that claim to predict which IVF embryo will grow into the tallest, ...

Here's what we know about a South Florida DNA lab chosen over Quantico to analyze evidence in the Nancy Guthrie abduction.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Objective To compare the diagnostic accuracy of minipad collected menstrual blood versus clinician collected cervical samples ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Officials from Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties on Monday will mark the completion of a new regional forensic facility designed to speed up DNA testing and ...

VAN WERT — The Ohio Supreme Court on Dec. 23 declined to hear an appeal in the case of John Spirko, charged in the 1982 murder of a Van Wert County postmistress. The high court’s ruling means that ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival technologies, such as stone tools. They may also have given us the secret to a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew F. Erskine is a trusts and estates attorney. Imagine opening a birthday gift DNA kit and discovering you're entitled to ...

A novel, blood-based test developed using fragmentomic features of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) detects colorectal cancer (CRC) with a 90.4% sensitivity and shows consistent performance across stages and ...