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Mark Stanley Personette, 80, was sentenced to life in prison after spending more than 40 years evading capture for the ...

A hair found in Jefferson’s Bible helped unlock a decade-long DNA investigation into his relationship with Sally Hemings.

Opening a Bible that once belonged to Thomas Jefferson, staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 2011 ...

Two devastating movement disorders, Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy, often look so similar in the clinic that ...

Death does not make DNA disappear. Long after the heart has stopped and the brain has lost function, genetic material can remain inside cells and tissues. What changes is the environment around it: ...

Learn how DNA extracted from locks of Thomas Jefferson's hair have confirmed that the third president of the U.S. fathered ...

Authorities have identified a Scott City, Missouri, man whose body was recovered from the Mississippi River in 1988, ...

What can our DNA tell us about where Indians came from? How far back can scientists trace human migration? And can artificial ...

A new DNA study has found significant Khoe-San ancestry among sampled South African Coloured communities, revealing layers of ...

Investigators in Montana, working with forensic experts, have solved the 1978 homicide of 16-year-old Corina Contreraz by ...