dna

Back in April we brought news of the Golden State Killer being captured because his family had used a genealogy company to analyze their DNA. This is going mainstream now and cops have cracked five more cases using the same methods. I wouldn't send my DNA to one of these services, but that's...

So the Golden State Killer was all over the news last week and he was busted using DNA evidence. It was not his DNA found, but someone's in his family, and that helped point investigators towards him. I also read yesterday, where police had another suspect last year that was fingered by DNA...

Commercial genealogy resulted in the capture of a person alleged to be the Golden State Killer when police used results from a genealogy company to match up to genetic material from the killer. At this point in time it's not clear which company assisted police, but once again it shows what you...

Developed in a lab at the University of Washington, scientists have created the first "DNA-based exploit of a computer system." Researchers were able to gain access using $89 DNA purchased online by encoding a buffer overflow attack into it and having the computer process genetic data when read...