NEW YORK — Looking for love? Try leaning in for a ... cheek swab. A couple of genetic testing companies are promising to match couples based on...
AP | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
WINNIPEG, Manitoba — A Canadian man who spent 13 years in prison for the murder of a teenage girl in 1990 was acquitted Friday. A judge acquitt...
AP | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
WINNIPEG, Manitoba — A Canadian man who spent 13 years in prison for the murder of a teenage girl in 1990 was acquitted Friday. A judge acquitt...
John Maki | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago
In most police and courtroom dramas, crimes are solved as soon as a character confesses. However, as a new book shows, a confession is sometimes only the beginning of the real story.
The Denver Post | Howard Pankratz | Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver
Funded by a $1.2 million federal grant and using the latest DNA technology, Colorado prosecutors hope to review as many as 5,000 rape, murder and mans...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Huffington Post blogger Barry Scheck, of the Innocence Project, weighs in on the new evidence revealed by an investigative report in the New Yorker on...
Francine Hardaway | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
Here are ten simple things we can do to reform health care.
John Terzano | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
Ernest Sonnier's release is just the latest case that highlights the ongoing problem of wrongful convictions in Texas. And writ large, it is a reminder of the continuing struggle we face to fix our nation's broken criminal justice system.
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess And Emily Witt | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Seven months after the federal government gave final approval to a controversial plan to collect DNA samples from undocumented immigrants, the program...
Robert Creamer | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that convicted inmates do not have the constitutional right to DNA testing, even though it could, as Justice Stevens said in his dissent, "ascertain the truth once and for all."
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Thursday that a convicted rapist has no constitutional right to test biological evidence used at his trial i...
AP | Posted 06.20.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The state Senate has rejected a plan to start taking DNA samples from everyone arrested on felony charges in Illinois. The ...
Lennard Davis | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living
The Right was wrong in banning stem-cell research, but the Left shouldn't over-correct by insisting that science be free to do anything it likes without the input of informed citizens.
NYT | John Schwartz | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home
Many New York sushi restaurants and seafood markets are playing a game of bait and switch, say two high school students turned high-tech sleuths. In ...
John Terzano | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics
Our criminal justice system continues to place significant obstacles in the way of post-conviction DNA testing that could determine whether the wrong people have been punished for crimes they didn't commit.
Adam Hanft | Posted 07.05.2008 | Living
California is trying to stop companies from marketing genetic testing to state residents. But accurate genetic understanding could have enormously beneficial implications for individuals.
AP | MEGAN K. SCOTT | Posted 11.13.2009 | Style