Texas sexual-assault survivors now have a quieter route to forensic DNA testing that does not require calling the police. A new limited-consent option lets survivors get a forensic medical exam and have evidence tested for foreign DNA while holding off on a formal report to law enforcement.

These articles describe how new forensic and DNA technologies have helped investigators resolve long-unsolved cases. Each story shows law enforcement reopening cold cases as tools improved. Investigators matched decades-old evidence with DNA profiles and genealogical methods to identify victims or arrest suspects.

A discredited forensic scientist who analysed DNA evidence for the Crown in hundreds of criminal cases received almost $2.8 million of public funds, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The Bermuda Police

On the third day of a high-profile evidentiary hearing in Orange County, forensic experts took the stand Wednesday as the legal team for 80-year-old Tommy Zeigler sought to use modern DNA testing to challenge a nearly half-century-old murder conviction.

Colorado investigators say they have solved the 1987 killing of Rhonda Marie Fisher after newly analyzed DNA linked her death to a serial murderer.

DPS' Crime Laboratory Division is implementing the state’s new Limited Consent for DNA Testing Program for sexual assault survivors.

Every living thing has DNA, the blueprint for life. These genetic blueprints separate us as species and, further, as individuals. The human genome — the complete set of DNA found in all humans — is around 99.9% identical in all people, but that 0.1% of ...

This volume offers recommendations for handling DNA samples, performing calculations, and other aspects of using DNA as a forensic tool. It addresses two major areas - determination of DNA profiles and interpretation of a finding that the DNA profile of a ...