When the East Area Rapist broke into the home of his first victim in 1976, human DNA had not yet...
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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...
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It’s a compelling narrative: A parent learns that his or her child has a fatal disease with no cure, and...
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Doris Tyler lay on the examining table as the doctor stuck a long, thin tube into her belly. The doctor...
Using DNA to find a killer sounds easy: Upload some DNA to a database, get a match and — bingo...