Germany's top court decided on Tuesday that people's right right to know their parents is not unconditional, when it rejected an attempt by a woman to make the man she believes is her father take a DNA test.
Police finally have caught a man responsible for three rapes in northern Bavaria in 2008 after his DNA turned up at a break-in a different part of the country.
German police have arrested a man on suspicion of killing a young girl more than 25 years ago, on the basis of DNA evidence, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
A 14-year-old boy who gave his classmate a love bite has been ordered by a court to submit a DNA sample to be stored on a biometric register of sex offenders. Germany's highest court will now investigate the case.
Dogs have always enjoyed wide acceptance and man’s best friend, but a German team of scientists has revealed that horses may have been domesticated more than five millennia ago.
Five weeks after their arrest, Berlin police have released two suspects in the spectacular robbery of the city’s KaDeWe department store because DNA tests can’t tell the identical twins apart, daily <i>Berliner Morgenpost</i> reported on Thursday.
The city-state of Bremen plans to be the first place in Germany to use synthetic DNA on valuables to trace thieves, daily <i>Berliner Morgenpost</i> reported this week.
Forensic scientists in Germany have been warned to be extra careful when identifying bodies from DNA after a body was found with the genes from two people.