GAITHERSBURG, Md. — In a windowless room, under fluorescent lights, Edward Sisco thinks about one question. “How do we get them a rapid answer in a safe manner?” he asked. Sisco is a research chemist ...

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Medscape recently spoke with Brian Ward, PhD, Vice President of Operations for Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc., in Salt Lake City, Utah, about the difficult task of identifying the victims of the ...

A pioneering new test that can recover fingerprints from ammunition casing, once thought nearly impossible, has been developed by two Irish scientists. Dr Eithne Dempsey, and her recent PhD student Dr ...

Avery was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2007. Steven Avery is escorted into a Calumet County courtroom during the opening day in his murder trial, Feb. 12, 2007, in Chilton, Wis. Morry ...

There's not much information available about circumstances surrounding a human skull discovered June 29 in a wooded area in Owen County. The skull was found on private land along North Cataract Road ...

Nagpur: Despite explicit directions from the National Medical Commission (NMC) to eliminate unscientific and discriminatory ...

The fire that broke out at a bar in Crans-Montana, a ski resort town in southwestern Switzerland, killed 40 people, including nine French nationals, and injured more than 100. Many of the victims were ...