The case lay dormant for decades until police reopened it as part of a cold‑case review in 2023, spurred by advancements in ...

DNA identification has gone mainstream—from the elite labs of “CSI” to your living room. When it first appeared over 30 years ago, it was an arcane technique.

Ryland Headley was described by his neighbours as a kind and respectful 92-year-old, but he harboured a deep secret: he was a ...

The first genetic fingerprint was produced by Alec Jeffreys at Leicester University in 1984, ushering in a new era of processing biological samples. Science Museum Group, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License DNA ...

A 92-year-old man will die in prison after being convicted of the rape and murder of a widow in 1967, in what is thought to be Britain’s longest-running cold case to be solved.

The next night, her apartment was broken into, and the woman was drugged and raped. But she remembered that silver car — and ...

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...

“Environmental DNA opens up a new range of possibilities by offering a tool that is no longer based on estimates or observations, but on factual data.” Read more The Saya de Malha Bank, a ...