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Human remains discovered decades ago along the Washington coast have been identified using advanced DNA technology, marking the second recent identification following a high-profile case out of Grays ...

A team of researchers has conducted the largest and most comprehensive genome-wide association study (GWAS) to date of ...

Ancestry and lifestyle choices of parents may affect the rate and type of new genetic changes that arise in their children, new research has found. The study sheds light on factors that influence the ...

Link found between super-agers, or people with exceptional longevity, to inherited DNA from Ice Age hunter-gatherer ...

According to The Dallas Morning News, the Collin County District Attorney’s Office announced this week that jurors found ...

Schizophrenia has long been one of medicine’s most puzzling conditions, with genetics offering tantalizing clues but an ...

San Jose Police solve a 1997 murder using forensic genealogy, arresting Joe Contreras for Alice Sharitz's death.

It was January of 1980 when 21-year-old Helene Pruszynski was kidnapped, raped and murdered in Douglas County, Colorado. Her body was found in a field, but police never identified a suspect.

New research suggests the mysterious Roman-era “Beachy Head Woman” was likely from Britain, not the Mediterranean or sub-Saharan Africa. Advances in DNA sequencing are helping researchers resolve a ...