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Fertility doctor accused of fraudulently fathering patient's children

  • Jul 31
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Men sue hospital after DNA tests showed they were switched at birth

  • Jul 19

DNA testing identifies WWII Marine after 80 years

  • May 21
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Academy of Sciences secures grant to help endangered sea stars

  • May 10

New DNA testing solves 'brutal' 60-year-old San Rafael homicide case

  • Apr 1

Nancy Guthrie latest: Recovered glove is dead-end

  • Mar 5

Coupling may have happened more with human females, Neanderthal males

  • Feb 27

Cold case murder solved 44 years later using DNA from cigarette

  • Feb 23

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DNA testing identifies WWII Marine after 80 years

  • May 21
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Academy of Sciences secures grant to help endangered sea stars

  • May 10
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DNA on cigarette links suspect to 'brutal' San Rafael homicide cold case, solving 1966 murder

  • Apr 1
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2 arrested in 1993 cold case of man murdered in his Bay Area home, authorities say

  • Nov 11, 2025
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Advanced DNA testing helps solve decades-old Napa cold case

  • Oct 4, 2025
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Bay Area family discovers newly-adopted dog is biological father of pet who passed away

  • Jul 12, 2025
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Suspect in 1978 murder of San Jose teacher ID'd as 16-year-old boy, authorities say

  • Jun 3, 2025
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Victim in 1981 San Jose cold case murder identified; authorities looking for her killer

  • May 28, 2025

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2 arrested in 1993 cold case of man murdered in his Bay Area home, authorities say

In June of 1993, Zachary Jackson, 30, was found shot to death in his Alameda County home. No arrests were made and the case went cold. Then, 32 years later, two people were arrested including the mother of Jackson's two children.

  • Nov 11, 2025
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James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97

James D. Watson, who co-discovered of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953, has died. He was 97.

  • Nov 7, 2025

Advanced DNA testing helps solve decades-old cold case of missing Napa woman

Thanks to advanced DNA technology, authorities say the identified human remains found 12 years ago belong to Velma Louise Silva Lee of Napa. Lee was born in 1936 and had been missing for years.

  • Oct 5, 2025

Scientists still working to make 9/11 DNA matches 24 years later

"The rumbling, it was the loudest, most violent time of my life," said Mark Desire.

  • Sep 11, 2025

Critical DNA evidence to be allowed in Gilgo Beach serial killer case, judge rules

A New York judge on Wednesday admitted DNA evidence prosecutors say links alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann to the murders of at least seven victims.

  • Sep 3, 2025