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 ...

Engineers at Duke University and the New York University's Tandon School of Engineering have demonstrated a method for ensuring that an increasingly popular method of genetic identification called ...

Lifestyle, or put another way 'bad habits', is one of the textbook explanations for why some people are at higher risk for cancer. We often hear that smoking increases our risk of developing lung ...

Schools in Texas are providing parents with free DNA and fingerprint identification kits, as part of a program to help identify missing children. While the law that created the program does not say ...

New research published in Science Advances is attempting to change the way that we think about cancer. The research suggests that cancers develop more due to genetic predispositions that due to “bad” ...

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 ...

Decoding the identity of biomolecules from trace samples is a longstanding goal in the field of biotechnology, and while next-generation sequencing technologies have made it possible to identify ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Forensic scientists have used genetic material (DNA) as evidence in criminal cases such as rape and murder since the middle of the last decade ...