Tens of thousands of children as young as ten are having their DNA swabbed and stored by police forces across the country, even if they are not charged with any offence. One force admitted taking samples from more than 14,000 youngsters between... Read more
On April 25, the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security held a hearing on on H.R. 3361, the “Utilizing DNA Technology to Solve Cold Cases Act of 2011. The proposed legislation instructs the FB... Read more
Maryland’s highest court on Tuesday blocked police in most cases from collecting DNA samples when they arrest suspects in violent crimes and burglaries, dealing a blow to one of Gov. Martin O’Malley’s signature initiatives. The... Read more
A Newcastle barrister has questioned New South Wales Government claims that DNA testing has been reduced to an average 14 day turnaround time. Two years ago the forensic testing backlog reached 6,500 cases and $25 million was set aside to improv... Read more
The New South Wales Government is turning to robots to ensure a DNA testing backlog that has dogged the Hunter’s court system does not blowout again. Lawyers and prosecutors have been deeply concerned about a forensic processing backlog fo... Read more
The anti-terrorism squad (ATS), which is probing the 13/7 serial blasts, had painstakingly collected some vital evidence from a flat in Habib Apartment in Byculla (W), where two suspected Pakistani bombers had stayed before and after the explosi... Read more
Years Of Prosecutors Not Divulging Tainted Evidence And Flawed Lab Reports Coming To Light. Read more
Participants in the Fourth International Medical Genetics Conference called here on Wednesday for the creation of a national DNA database to help draw a map of genetic diseases. In statements to KUNA, Dr. Makia Marafie, member of the organizing... Read more
Forensic DNA is quite unique and follows a different process compared to genealogy DNA or familial DNA. The main goal of genealogy DNA is to check the background and genetic history of people, but forensics deals more with the solving of cases a... Read more
President Obama may have given credence to a relatively new but questionable law enforcement practice that the rest of the developed world is starting to shun: taking and retaining DNA samples from individuals arrested for a crime but not convic... Read more