DNA Bloodlines

Using modern DNA tests Texas scientists have devised a way to identify eight of Gacy’s previously unidentified victims. Forensic scientists at the University of North Texas have taken DNA samples from the skeletal remains of eight of Gacy’s unidentified victims in hopes ...

Situated along the Silk Road, a 7,000-km-long trade route that linked Asia and Europe more than 2,000 years ago, the village stepped into the spotlight in the 1990s when archeologists found the remains of an ancient fort and a crowd ...

Family Tree DNA has announced the 7th Genetic Genealogy Conference for Family Tree DNA Group Administrators, to be held in Houston, Texas on November 5th and 6th, 2011. Featured speakers at the meeting include the following: Doron Behar, PhD Michael Hammer, PhD Steve Morse Spencer Wells, ...

NEW YORK — His family has his spare firefighter uniform, but not the one he wore on 9/11 — or any other trace of him. Killed at the World Trade Center, 32-year-old Scott Kopytko's remains were never recovered — a painful ...

Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Federal officials promised Friday to improve two crucial weapons in the fight to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes: an electric fish barrier near Chicago and an early-warning system that detects carp DNA ...

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- The police have exonerated a man who at first was suspected of being one of three intruders who forced their way into an apartment and sexually assaulted a pregnant woman. DNA tests proved that Joiseth Osorio, 22, ...