A new study suggests that severe trauma, like that experienced in war, can leave epigenetic “scars” on DNA that endures for generations. In the early 1980s, the Syrian regime carried out a ...

A three-person mixture of unknown DNA was found under a 21-year-old University of Idaho student’s fingernails after she and three other students were killed at an off-campus home in November ...

The legal battle over whether a new type of DNA evidence against accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann will be thrown out continued on Wednesday. Heuermann appeared to nod off at times ...

She covers current events, breaking news and issues including substance use. Forensic DNA testing has allowed detectives to close a decades-old cold case homicide in Nevada, police said.