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Investigators are probing whether contamination at a city laboratory could have led to the match between DNA found at the murder scene of a Juilliard student eight years ago and a chain used at a recent Occupy Wall Street protest, law enforcement sources said Wednesday.

DNA recovered from a chain at the site of an Occupy Wall Street protest in March has been matched with DNA linked to the unsolved killing of a Juilliard student in 2004, law enforcement officials familiar with the case said on Tuesday.

A novel method known as whole genome sequencing focuses on the genes that drive a cancer, not the tissues or organ.

Research into Michelle Obama’s white relatives underscores the history of racial intermingling that binds countless American families decades after the Civil War.

The Lubbock City Council is scheduled to vote on a resolution backing a fountain to commemorate a man who died in prison before he was cleared by DNA testing of the crime that sent him there.

Genetic testing has identified one of the eight victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy who remained nameless for more than three decades, authorities in Chicago announced Tuesday.

DNA testing has failed to link a new suspect in the D.B. Cooper hijacking to a necktie that he left behind on the plane in 1971, the FBI said Monday.

American Amanda Knox arrived in court Saturday as an appeal against her conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher resumed in Italy.

The family of Amanda Knox said that testimony today by DNA experts at the appeal of her Italian murder conviction was "huge" and put the American exchange student "another day closer to freedom."

Many modern-day humans may be carrying around a fragment of Neanderthal DNA on one of their sex chromosomes, a new study finds.