The Pennsylvania State Police is expanding their successful Rapid DNA program to municipal law enforcement agencies, providing local law enforcement with quicker access to critical forensic technology ...

California authorities have made advances in two long-running investigations — identifying human remains found in 1993 as ...

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Thousands of cold cases could be solved after a breakthrough in DNA profiling. Forensic scientists from Interpol have developed a new method for identifying victims and suspects from previously ...

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 ...

The DNA report for the murdered daughter of an IRS officer is due in 15 days. AIIMS forensic head Dr Sudhir Gupta said postmortem findings show signs of a violent struggle. The accused, Rahul Meena, ...

In April 2022, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) introduced the draft for the DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill, commonly referred to as the DNA Bill. The primary aim of ...

DNA fingerprinting has been hailed by law-enforcement officials as the 20th century’s most important breakthrough in forensic science. They are eager to use the new technology to identify and ...

You’ve seen it countless times. Police scope out the scene of a crime and find a piece of evidence: a strand of hair, a blood sample, a bullet casing. It goes to the lab, and after forensic scientists ...

DNA profiling technologies are rapidly advancing, creating the potential to identify individuals involved in making, packing and transporting illegal capsules by analyzing the exterior of the illicit ...