By expanding federal agents' authority to collect the DNA of immigrant detainees, the government has risked violating Americans’ rights.

"We can finally bring a close to a dark chapter in Chelan County. To Whitney, we apologize it took us this long to get closure."

Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into an FBI crime database, raising alarms about oversight and legality.

When evidence is collected at a Hennepin County crime scene, it ends up in a laboratory in downtown Minneapolis, where in just a few minutes, analysts can identify blood on a t-shirt.

Organelles spit out DNA contaminated with damaging components, leading to the activation of inflammatory enzymes, mouse experiments show.

When a sperm meets an egg, a lot has to go right for an embryo to develop into a complete organism. One critical step of early development is the reorganization of parental DNA to form a new unified genome,

Nancy Radbil was 18 when she left her North 66th Street home on July 3, 1979, for a bike ride and never returned. Her killing remains unsolved.

DNA evidence leads to the identification of Alan Bass as the suspect in a 1981 Baltimore County murder case, despite his current imprisonment and poor health preventing immediate prosecution.