Advanced DNA testing using genealogy databases could take weeks or months to identify Nancy Guthrie's abductor after initial FBI database search failed.

DNA is the blueprint of life. Genes encode proteins and serve as the body's basic components. However, building a functioning organism also requires precise instructions about when, where, and how much those components should be produced.

Only a few years ago, Tuesday’s announcement that a glove believed to be connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, had no match to a DNA database would have been a dead end.

"How is this guy a Pit Bull????” the dog owner said in a viral Threads post.

A man was convicted this month in the murder of a 13-year-old girl in 1982.

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in developing an artificial DNA base pair that is based on a different chemical force than natural genetic material. While the common natural DNA building blocks are held together by hydrogen bonds,

Authorities are analyzing biological evidence in the search for Nancy Guthrie nearly three weeks after Savannah Guthrie's mom was last seen.

You follow the thread of a case that sat cold for nearly three decades and feel the moment the silence breaks. Investigators used updated DNA methods and persistent detective work to connect evidence from 1994 to a living suspect,