The goal of the overall project, according to the grant award from the Justice Department, is to focus on unsolved violent cold cases with suspect DNA profiles ... sets of human remains, a man ...

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows. Not only that, the items are ...

Forensic DNA analysis plays a crucial role in identifying human remains, particularly in the context of mass graves where skeletal remains may be the only evidence available. This field has gained ...

After more than two decades, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's (LVMPD) Homicide Cold Case Unit has identified a ...

Decades after investigators unearthed thousands of human bones ... of their own DNA. Those samples can then be screened against DNA profiles scientists are extracting from the remains, which ...

A decade after the skeletal remains of a young girl were found in Honolulu, Hawaii, DNA has helped identify the missing child as Mary Sue Fink. Fink was born on April 29, 1959, more than 65 years ...

Staff at the Human Identification Center, where the remains are stored in a temperature- and humidity-controlled space, selected some of the most promising bones for DNA analysis. At the Indiana ...

Staff at the Human Identification Center, where the remains are stored in a temperature- and humidity-controlled space, selected some of the most promising bones for DNA analysis. At the Indiana ...