Over the past three decades, the collection of DNA from convicted criminals has become standard in the U.S. justice system, and many states now also swab people arrested for serious crimes.

Genetic genealogy – the forensic tool behind hundreds of long‑stalled case breakthroughs, including the 2016 slaying of a New Jersey man found shot and dumped on a Brandywine Hundred neighborhood ...

(via Be Smart) DNA evidence is supposed to be the gold standard of criminal investigation. But what happens when that same technology sends innocent people to prison? Featuring interviews with Amanda ...

Prosecutors in Zimbabwe used lion DNA forensics for the first time to successfully convict two people for poaching and trafficking a male lion near Hwange National Park. Investigators analyzed DNA ...