"The study is both to check if there are convicted felons that should be in the database, but also to improve the system," one forensic lab official said.

The Nagoya High Court on Aug. 30 sounded the alarm about the current situation where anyone could be treated as a criminal ...

QIAGEN chooses Bode Technology as its exclusive global commercial partner to accelerate use of GEDmatch PRO genealogy database in law enforcement and identification of human remains // Collaboration ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced that the Applied Biosystems™ RapidINTEL™ Plus ...

Suggested Citation: "Executive Summary." National Research Council. 1996. The Evaluation of Forensic DNA Evidence. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5141. This committee was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a Hartford courtroom on Tuesday morning, prosecutors will begin presenting evidence in a case that went cold for years — a ...

Forensic DNA analysis has fundamentally changed criminal investigations, providing an unprecedented level of accuracy in identifying suspects, exonerating the innocent, and solving cold cases. And ...

WASHINGTON, DC (1/10/24) – STRmix™ forensic software has produced usable, interpretable, and legally admissible DNA evidence in at least 530,000 criminal cases worldwide since its introduction in 2012 ...

Here's a scenario: police take a blood sample from a crime scene. They compare the DNA to that of convicted criminals, but get no match. But they find someone with similar DNA, and that leads them to ...

For more than three decades, DNA has been considered the gold standard of forensic science. It has transformed criminal ...