The interim cabinet of Bangladesh on Monday gave the final approval for the draft of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Act at its first meeting since it was formed to steer the country through the upcoming elections. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina chair... Read more
Drivers in North Fort Worth, Texas, are being pulled over at a police roadblock and asked for saliva, blood and breath samples. They are offered $10 for a cheek-swab DNA sample, $50 for a blood sample, and nothing for a breath sample — since pas... Read more
The Bangladesh government is likely to set up a national DNA database centre at the National Forensic DNA Profiling Laboratory of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital so that crimes can be busted much easier. The indexing system at the centre – th... Read more
Belgium needs a universal DNA database to fight crime with samples to be taken from every newborn baby or foreigner who enters the country, a senior Belgian justice official has said. Yves Liegeois, Antwerp’s Attorney General, has c... Read more
CIVIL Liberties Australia is concerned emerging DNA technology that allows police to determine eye and hair colour of potential suspects will impinge on privacy and help create a national DNA database. But forensic officer for Victoria Police Ru... Read more
State lawmakers in Pennsylvania are debating a bill to allow police to take a sample of someone’s DNA after that person has been arrested for a felony. Currently, that’s only allowed once someone has been convicted. During a hearing on the issue... Read more
Prairieville police are holding a man’s DNA hostage after obtaining it for evidence when his wife’s car was broken into Oct. 29. This ridiculous ordeal could be the first of many future attempts to broaden the government DNA database. In Alabama... Read more
With genetic fingerprinting being used extensively for crime-solving, many governments are compiling vast databases containing the DNA profiles of many of their citizens in an attempt to curb crime and approximate a utopic world. Different count... Read more
Genetic material is the smoking gun of the modern crime scene. Juries in criminal trials are often encouraged to think of DNA profiling as an exact science, in which telltale traces of skin, hair, and blood identify perpetrators with pinpoint ac... Read more
The Indonesian Police now have a world-class forensic tool to help them narrow down the identity of suspects in crime for prosecution, thanks to Cowra’s own 26-year-old Dr Samantha Venables (nee Orford). Dr Venables created a database that can a... Read more