France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases.

Each genetic trace acts like a footprint, silently recording the movements and existence of life that would otherwise go ...

The 1994 murder of Springfield, Virginia, artist Robin Warr Lawrence, 37, would go cold for decades — until DNA left on a ...

The brutal assault on a woman in her sixties remained unsolved for almost two decades until the Lake County Sheriff's Office ...

Image credit: You-Chiun Chang/University of Texas at Austin. Some genetic disorders—such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and Tay Sachs disease—involve many mutations in a person’s genome, often with ...

A Texas company's offer of help and police legwork leads to the identification of a female found in a creek in Millcreek in ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

The tendency to use cannabis is associated with genes linked to impulsive behavior, obesity, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, among other traits, according to a study released Monday by researchers ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet from one of the most controversial figures in the scientific world. Charles Murray, the political scientist who—along with the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein—wrote ...

For more than four decades, the suspect in the 1981 murder of Elizabeth King at her Moffatt Avenue home remained a mystery. Her case file sat untouched in the archives until September of last year.