Zambian President Edgar Lungu said the launch of the country’s high-tech deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) machine will result in criminal cases to be resolved faster and more conclusively, the Za... Read more
A number of police officers are refusing to give DNA samples to the national forensic institute NFI data bank, the Gelderlander newspaper reports on Friday. The paper says 300 out of over 1,... Read more
Prof. Warnken Seeks Overturning of Client’s Rape Case, Hopes Justices Will Consider Implications of ‘Sweat Test’ University of Baltimore School of Law Associate Professor B... Read more
For the past five years, forensic scientists have been taking advantage of their ability to collect Touch DNA, small samples of DNA from evidence that has been handled by suspects. Items suc... Read more
Forensic science standards risk slipping since work was transferred to in-house police labs and private firms, the spending watchdog has warned. The National Audit Office said there was too... Read more
State police are looking into whether or not several of their forensic analysts cheated during a proficiency exam for new DNA test technology, technology that a local lawyer says shouldn... Read more
DNA can reveal an extraordinary amount of private information about you, including familial relationships, medical history, predisposition for disease, and possibly even behavioral te... Read more
A Brooklyn judge has stirred up controversy by tossing out two types of DNA evidence regularly used in criminal cases throughout the city, the Daily News has learned. Justice Mark Dwyer has... Read more
Police hunting for the killer of a grandmother who was bludgeoned to death with a hammer a year ago, have asked all men in the village where she was killed to give a DNA sample. Artist Valer... Read more
The state Department of Justice has hired nearly twenty more workers and begun a pricey renovation of its Madison crime lab so that it will be able to handle tens of thousands of additional... Read more