Parliamentary report recommends that all officers in the South African Police Service should be trained in crime scene protection ALL officers in the South African Police Service (SAPS) shou... Read more
DNA testing has taken dangerous criminals off the streets, solved decades-old homicides, exonerated the falsely accused and freed the wrongly imprisoned. “It’s an exciting time,” Ed Wall, ad... Read more
Panel recommends that it should ensure right to privacy to individuals A government-appointed committee has underlined several loopholes in a controversial bill that seeks to legalise DNA pr... Read more
Starting next January, the University of North Texas will conduct Rapid DNA tests on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense. Rapid DNA machines are tools used for quick DNA analysis, often... Read more
The days of police sending genetic evidence to state crime labs for DNA processing could soon be over. A new cloud-based DNA service has been specifically designed so local law enforc... Read more
In an in-depth interview to Firstpost, GV Rao, DNA analyst and former chief staff scientist at the Hyderabad-based Centre For DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics discussed of critical issues... Read more
A forensics error has led to an innocent man being held for five months on a charge of rape in the UK. The DNA sample from the rape victim was contaminated during a routine DNA extraction pr... Read more
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar has advised the Nigerian government to acquire DNA database for all the citizens in the country in order to bring down the rate of crim... Read more
The ACT Supreme Court has heard an email incorrectly identifying a severely disabled girl’s brother as the father of her child, was an unfortunate mistake. The court is considering a c... Read more
Robert Green OBE, a forensic science lecturer at the University of Greenwich at Medway, says database would increase the chance of solving crimes A FORENSICS expert is calling for every new... Read more