The role of genetics professionals in forensic kinship DNA identification after a mass fatality was initiated in response to recommendations of a multidisciplinary group advisory group (the ...

Sir Alec Jeffries is the British geneticist who discovered the DNA fingerprint two decades ago. His accidental revelation made it possible to identify people by detecting variations in their genes ...

From bodily fluids to skeletal remains, advances in DNA analysis and the study of insects and microbes aid forensic investigations.

Over the years, DNA has become one of forensic science’s most powerful tools, helping to identify suspects and victims, convict the guilty and exonerate the innocent.

Claire Glynn, Ph.D. (fourth from right), and her students at a conference. Karen McDermott recently completed an internship that enabled her to apply her forensic genetic genealogy skills to help ...

Forensic genealogists mix traditional family tree research with DNA databases to put a name to unidentified remains in cases that have long gone unsolved ...

Forensic experts have obtained a DNA profile of the unknown killer of a schoolgirl raped and shot dead 62 years ago near Swansea, Wales. Scientists isolated the killer's DNA from a semen stain on the ...

Skin cells and their DNA varies between individuals, but new data shows that some groups of people have higher variability in their cell deposits. The South Australian forensic science researchers ...

New York Legal Aid has asked the state attorney general to investigate two techniques used to analyze and sort DNA from crime scenes, which they say are unreliable and have been misused.

A new genetic test can reveal the hair color of unseen criminal suspects or unidentifiable victims. The new analysis used a collection of recently discovered mutations linked to hair color, and it ...

According to the latest study from BCC Research, the "Global DNA Forensics Market" is projected to grow from an estimated $3.3 billion in 2025 to $4.7 billion by the end of 2030, at a compound ...