Here's a scenario: police take a blood sample from a crime scene. They compare the DNA to that of convicted criminals, but get no match. But they find someone with similar DNA, and that leads them to ...

SAN FRANCISCOSAN FRANCISCO — Supervisors in San Francisco approved legislation prohibiting police from storing DNA obtained from rape kits and other crime scene evidence in city-run databases for more ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- As 28-year-old Bryan Kohberger awaits extradition to Idaho to face murder charges, questions are mounting about how police were able to name their suspect in the high-profile ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott on Wednesday pledged to investigate allegations the city crime lab used DNA from a rape kit to identify a criminal suspect – while explaining that ...

(NewsNation) — Immigration authorities are storing DNA from migrant children in an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit future crimes, according to a new report from Wired. The report ...

(CNN) -- In the early 2000s, genetic testing emerged as a direct-to-consumer product that did not require a physician's involvement and the consequences of this shift could impact everyone. More than ...

CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday pushed forward a bill that would require arrestees to provide a DNA sample upon arrest. Senate Bill 422 amends the current law, ...

Forcing felons to give up their DNA solved a 2½-year-old robbery, Lincoln police said. Mitchell Christopher Walton of Omaha gave authorities a DNA sample in March because a 2010 law requires all ...

Donna Green held her infant son for only five days before he was kidnapped from her Atlanta home by a woman who had befriended the teen mom at the hospital. More than four decades later, Green still ...