In October, the City Council introduced a bill to limit the NYPD’s collection of DNA samples. Co-sponsors Diana Ayala and Donovan Richards seek to prevent gathering samples from minors without their ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation (SMGF) today announced, in conjunction with the 2010 National Genealogical Society Family History Conference, that its ...

A new Ohio law requiring anyone arrested on a felony charge to submit a DNA sample has more than doubled the amount of samples the state collected for its DNA database last year.The law that took ...

An overburdened administrator plus a lack of checks and balances in the now-defunct State Medical Examiner's Office created a situation in which the DNA samples of more than 1,600 Delaware criminals ...

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regula, a global developer of forensic devices and identity verification solutions, has enlarged its document template database. Now it consists of over 12,000 templates ...

DNA samples from about 1,600 Delaware criminals were found in a box in the state Medical Examiner’s Office in 2014, having never been entered into a national database of sex offenders and others ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced the addition of nearly 2,700 DNA samples from criminal offenders to a national law enforcement database on Wednesday. According to ...

“NIH conceived this program a few years ago, around the time specifically targeted treatments for cancer (depending upon DNA) were being launched,” said Dr. Vivian Fonseca, chief of endocrinology at ...