The technique can predict a person’s ancestry and physical traits without the need for a match with an existing sample in a database. By Oscar Schwartz MELBOURNE, Australia — When a man washed up on ...

Scientists believe that DNA serves as a blueprint for the visible characteristics of a person’s body. And that by studying the DNA of known people, they can predict the characteristics of an unknown ...

GAMBIER, Ohio (WCMH) – The Knox County Sheriff’s Office is hoping to crack a 15-year-old cold case homicide through the use of a relatively new technology that predicts the face of a suspect using DNA ...

WASHINGTON (CIRCA) - Unique technology can now take a DNA sample left at a crime scene and turn it into a composite sketch. Law enforcement agencies say it's helped them make major breakthroughs in ...

A private company was thanked by cops for helping identify a suspect in the Faith Hedgepeth case. But is law enforcement’s use of public DNA databases ethical? This is the N&O’s special report.