The L.A. County Sheriff's Department used DNA testing kits for months without realizing they were faulty. An internal ...

Los Angeles County has been using potentially faulty DNA test kits in criminal investigations for months.

The department said they were using the faulty DNA test kits for eight months until the manufacturer notified them. Deputies ...

The manufacturer of the test kits notified the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in August that many of the kits were ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says it will retest 4,000 DNA samples and open an internal investigation after ...

Cell-free DNA testing uses a small amount of a person's blood and tests it for a large number of cancers. A positive test could indicate that the person has a certain type of cancer in theory before ...

About 4,000 DNA samples will need to be retested after the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department realized it was using ...

"We take the integrity of our criminal investigations and the reliability of our forensic testing very seriously,” L.A.

The company that makes the test kits recommended the department stop using them in August, but the letter went to someone who ...

I am 85 and healthy apart from polycythemia vera, for which I take aspirin. I was interested in the new blood test for cancer. Is it worthwhile? — M.N. ANSWER: When screening patients for cancer, the ...

KSP collected two hairs from inside Crystal Rogers' car in 2016. Her car was found on the Bluegrass Parkway days after her disappearance a year earlier.