San Jose Police solve a 1997 murder using forensic genealogy, arresting Joe Contreras for Alice Sharitz's death.

David Ring, who was born in South Korea, never expected to learn his half-sister has been living only states away.

The human immune system like fat and blood sugar levels may have been due to genetic mutations from Denisovans, our little known extinct human relatives ...

The 1982 cold case of Charles Nunnenman, once the Western Reserve John Doe, has been solved using DNA and genealogy research.

DNA analysis shows strong ties to Early Bronze Age Sicily, with little influence from the eastern Mediterranean. There’s also ...

The unidentified man’s DNA profile was uploaded to the GEDmatch database, but all of his DNA matches there turned out to be ...

Some Y-chromosome DNA sequences from the “Holy Child” artwork and from a letter penned by one of Leonardo’s cousins appear to ...

For years we’ve been told that MtDNA (maternal DNA) is passed from mother to children, both male and female, but only ...

TOLEDO, Ohio. ( WTVG /Gray News) - A father in Ohio reunited with his son, whom he never knew he had, after an Ancestry.com ...

DNA reveals burials inside one of Europe’s largest Neolithic monuments, showing Spain’s Menga dolmen stayed sacred for ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...