Six months after a motorcycle chase ended with a suspect escaping on foot, Sparta police have arrested a 39-year-old man using DNA evidence and fingerprint analysis.

Apr. 15—The primary suspect in an unsolved Waikiki murder case nearly 30 years old has been identified through DNA comparisons and reexaminations of fingerprints at the scene. The Honolulu Police ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

The Secret Service is set to run a DNA and fingerprint analysis of the “dime-sized” cocaine baggie found at the White House over the weekend, RadarOnline.com has learned. After the illicit substance ...

Charles Don Flores has been facing death for 25 years. Flores has been on death row in Texas since a murder conviction in 1999. But John Wixted, a psychologist at the University of California, San ...

Colorectal cancer is unique in having its own microbial ‘fingerprint’ – according to new research from the University of East Anglia. Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK and ...

Over the years, forensic science has undergone a significant transition from “trust the examiner” to “trust the scientific ...

DNA. It's what makes you unique. Unless you have an identical twin, your DNA is different from that of every other person in the world. And that's what makes DNA fingerprinting possible. Experts can ...

Back in 1985, the first genetic "fingerprint" was a miracle of science. Today, DNA analysis is standard practice for defining paternity or maternity, predisposition to disease, embryonic health, ...

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