Tag: DNA

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Authorities on Friday arrested what prosecutors in Cuyahoga County hope is the first of dozens of previously unidentified rapists and murderers thanks to an emerging crime-fighting technique where investigators use DNA databases maintained by popular genealogy websites to solve cold cases.Cuyahoga County prosecutors teamed up with...

Christopher Columbus' travels helped Europeans discover America, but the famous explorer's origins have long been mysterious.Now scientists hope to shed more light on the ancestry of the great man thanks to the latest advances in genetic engineering. Tests on Columbus' bones are done at the University of Granada to...