SANFORD (Reuters) - Lawyers seeking to overturn the murder conviction of a Honduran man who has been on Florida's death row since 2006 presented new DNA and blood stain evidence in a Florida court on Tuesday. Full story
One person's trash may be another person's treasure, but sometimes, trash is just trash. Full story
Geneticist Molly Bray, who has isolated millions of DNA samples from thousands of subjects, found that people with one type of FTO sequence are more likely to keep exercising while those with a different type of sequence are more likely to give up. NBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports.
The Mississippi State Supreme Court issued a stay just hours before a man was scheduled to be executed for a 1992 double murder. Full story
Chris Hayes delievers the most overcovered and undercovered stories of the week, from Reese Witherspoon's arrest to a woman who went missing 11 years ago to the recession's effect on young workers.
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told officials he and his brother, Tamerlan, had originally planned to set off their explosives in Boston on the Fourth of July, but changed their plans when they finished the bombs sooner than expected. NBC’s Pete Williams reports.
Melissa Harris-Perry talks to Kirk Bloodsworth, the 1st American death row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence about ending the death penalty in the U.S.
NBC’s Pete Williams and Michael Isikoff report on the arrest made in connection with the bombing.
Law enforcement officials have revealed one of the pieces of the pressure cookers used in the Boston Marathon bombing contains female DNA but they stress it could have come from many sources, including someone who touched it before the area was sealed off. NBC’s Pete Williams reports.
NBC’s Pete Williams reports on the latest in the Boston bombing investigation, and why Jim Clapper is ordering a review into government handling of intelligence leading up to the attacks.
California authorities continue to search for a man they say killed an 8-year-old girl in her Valley Springs home as investigators announce they may have DNA evidence from the crime scene. KCRA’s Claire Doan reports.
The Nobel Prize medal won by Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA is seen in this undated handout photo. The medal sold for $2.27 million at auction on Thursday, a day after a letter in which Crick outlined the achievement to his young son became the most expensive letter ever auctioned when it
Francis Crick sketched the molecular structure of DNA in a letter he sent to his son in 1953.
Francis Crick with James D. Watson, co-discoverers of the structure and function of DNA, are shown in this image taken circa 1953 in this image released to Reuters on February 26, 2013. REUTERS/Christie's Images LTD. 2013/Handout
