A traditional cassette tape holds roughly 10 to 12 songs on each side, but 328 feet of this DNA cassette tape could hold the ...

Our increasingly digitized world has a data storage problem. Hard drives and other storage media are reaching their limits, ...

EVANSDALE, Iowa (KCCI) — Inside the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation’s Crime Lab, scientists quietly and meticulously pour over test tubes and machines. It’s the behind-the-scenes part of a ...

Solving decades-old homicides remains one of law enforcement’s most difficult challenges, but new technology is giving renewed hope to Oklahoma families still searching for answers. Hunter McKee with ...

A woman who was killed more than 30 years ago is no longer a Jane Doe. The Queens district attorney’s office announced Monday that it used DNA testing to determine that a woman whose body was found in ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A woman at the center of a 29-year-old cold case in Baltimore County has been identified, police said Thursday. Through a partnership with a DNA lab, police learned that Leoria Smith ...

Last week, a judge made a major ruling in the case against alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann, allowing DNA evidence obtained on several of his alleged victims to be used at trial. The ...

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said his investigators would examine whether it could be used to help solve the ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (WCCO) — More than three decades ago, police found Jeanie Childs brutally killed in her south Minneapolis apartment. Betty Eakman learned the victim was her daughter. “I was ...

ROCKLIN, California (KCRA) — Forensic technology and DNA evidence helped in the arrest of five of six suspects who the Rocklin Police Department said were responsible for a smash-and-grab burglary.