Díaz, who says he is not seeking financial gain, secured a court hearing after he hired a private detective to obtain a DNA sample from Benítez from a restaurant napkin. When that sample suggested the two “El Cordobés” were father and son, the court …

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The defense opened its case in the rape and double-murder cold case trial of a South Jersey man by disputing DNA evidence first collected 27 years ago in North Philadelphia. Prosecutors allege 54-year-old Rudolph Churchill's …

Don Dawood Ibrahim's former aide and dreaded gangster Subhash Singh Thakur, sentenced to life in the JJ hospital shootout case, will finally be brought back to a Mumbai jail after 12 years. Thakur, a native of Uttar Pradesh (UP), had gone to Varanasi …

DNA contains the information that defines life — but it can also be used to store digital content, too. Now, Microsoft has announced that it's seriously investigating the technique as a means of storing data, paying a bioscience company to create ten …

One letter of remorse as reported in the Sunday Times / One already out on parole with "multiple" charges of other crimes connected to him / only one DNA connection …………already twists in the tale- Felt so sad for Florian, her beloved Dad when I …

Many men might not even think to do it. But Color Genomics founder and president Othman Laraki has had himself tested for the BRCA pair of genes, which are widely known to correlate to breast cancer risk (such a test is why Angelina Jolie had her …

The Northwestern Division of the corps said its decision was based on a review of new information, particularly recently published DNA and skeletal analyses. The corps, which owns the remains, said the skeleton is now covered by the Native American …

Microsoft is buying 10 million strands of laboratory-grade DNA from Twist Bioscience that it will use to encode digital data, the companies said in a press release. The DNA strands — long oligonucleotides — are being studied as a potential …

When it comes to replicating their DNA so they can propagate, normal cells are perfectionists. Cancer cells, on the other hand, have no problem tolerating mistakes while copying their DNA. In fact, messed-up DNA is a big part of what lets them keep …

When four deputies showed up to a Belle Glade man's home Wednesday with a warrant for his DNA, he fought and threatened to kill the law enforcement officers, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office reports. MacKenson Jean Baptiste, 26, faces four …