New rapid DNA testing helps TBI speed up investigations

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is using rapid DNA testing technology to help speed up investigations, and News 2 got a ...
WTNH

News 8 Investigates: How rapid DNA testing is helping crack cases in Connecticut

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Crime-fighting meets high-tech in our News 8 investigation. A startling scene was captured on Farmington police’s dash cam. A burglary suspect was on the run, and there was a ...
Houston Chronicle

DNA testing works, but not if we fail to utilize it

Last week, Gov. Rick Perry granted the state's first posthumous pardon to a man who was innocent of a crime for which he had spent 13 years in prison. DNA testing cleared Tim Cole of a rape he did not ...
Tyler Morning Telegraph

How DNA testing directed Kilgore’s KFC murders from ‘wrong path’ to identification of final suspect

The answers were always there, waiting as the years and decades ticked by: Who killed five people kidnapped from a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Kilgore on Sept. 23, 1983? Finally, though, the science, ...
Science Daily

How a crucial DNA repair protein works -- and what it means for cancer treatment

DNA repair proteins act like the body's editors, constantly finding and reversing damage to our genetic code. Researchers have long struggled to understand how cancer cells hijack one of these ...