“It can take several weeks at a major lab to do what this machine can do in one day,” Michelle Welch said. Welch and Kaitlyn Nicholson are two of the three people at the crime lab who are qualified to ...

Several hundred more cold case homicides could be out there not being investigated, leaving families without answers and criminals walking free.

Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties celebrated tri-county biological science center, which will streamline DNA and ...

Brittni Montano hopes for a break in her son’s case every day. She has been since November of 2023. That’s when she learned her 24-year-old son John Gabaldon III, also known as Tre, was murdered.

A specialized DNA lab at North Dakota State University could help to lighten the workload at the busy state crime lab in Bismarck, school and state officials say. A consultant is drawing up blueprints ...

Local leaders from Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties gathered Jan. 26 to cut the ribbon on the new Tri-County ...

Almost 20 years ago, James Randerson ordered a sequence of smallpox DNA. Smallpox is the only human disease to have ever been successfully eradicated — 46 years ago as of yesterday. It’s one of the ...

The Hudson County Prosecutor's Office has opened its own DNA lab, cutting down on the time it takes to receive results that occurred when sending test samples to the busy New Jersey State Police lab.

It was technically a successful scientific discovery when analysts at the Hennepin County forensic science lab recognized there was a contaminant somewhere in its DNA process. That did not lessen the ...