PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - The world of crime scene analysis is constantly advancing and now it has taken a giant step forward. Computer technology is now solving murder cases worldwide and it was developed ...

Prosecutors typically downplay their elation when they win murder trials. Their usual responses, at least publicly, are lines like: "There are no winners here, but justice was served" etc. On March 20 ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Cybergenetics has developed a new approach to study DNA ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – An outside firm will help police analyze the forensic evidence that led to the arrest of the neighbor of tow sisters murdered in East Liberty. Though he proclaims his innocence, ...

Mark Perlin, Ph.D., chief scientific and executive officer of Cybergenetics, is a 2017 Pittsburgh Smart 50 honoree and Impact award winner Mark Perlin co-founded Cybergenetics in 1994 to interpret DNA ...

GOSHEN – Edward Holley wasn’t there to see it — there were problems transporting him from the county jail. But his attorneys failed in all but one respect Monday to convince Orange County Judge Hyun ...

PITTSBURGH, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Biological evidence is often a DNA mixture of two or more people. Forensic laboratories apply thresholds that simplify DNA data, which can reduce match statistics or ...

DNA has been considered the gold standard of forensic evidence for more than 30 years, even as various types of junk science have fallen out of use. But in recent years, police and crime labs have ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Pittsburgh-based Cybergenetics, formed in 1994, creates ...

Late on a hot August night in 2014, Syracuse, N.Y., police tried to pull over a car driving without headlights. The driver and passenger fled into a darkened park. As the officers chased them on foot, ...