The Long Island Gilgo Beach murder case is one of many in recent years when a long-unsolved homicide got a break from an unlikely source: discarded DNA. In the case of the more than a decade-old ...

SPRINGFIELD — The Hampden District Attorney’s office is asking for the public’s help to bring justice for families who lost loved ones in violent attacks that are decades old, with their killers still ...

Nearly 40 years after the wrong men were sent to prison for the brutal rape and murder of 16-year-old Theresa Fusco, prosecutors say DNA found on a discarded straw has led to a long-awaited ...

A 41-year-old Florida man has been charged in the 2009 stabbing death of his uncle in Queens. By Christopher Maag This February, Anthony Scalici discarded a fork in Florida. Detectives from New York ...

“Our results suggest that forensic applications of DNAm clocks using non-blood tissue types will provide age estimates that are not as accurate as predictions based on blood, especially if using ...

Cedars-Sinai scientists have developed an experimental drug that repairs DNA and serves as a prototype for a new class of medications that fix tissue damage caused by heart attack, inflammatory ...

NEW YORK — In February, Anthony Scalici discarded a fork in Florida. Detectives from New York and Florida had been watching him for weeks, waiting for a chance to get a sample of his DNA. Fifteen ...