The holding from the Albany -based Appellate Division, Third Department says New York's post-conviction DNA statute may ...

Forensic DNA evidence relies on understanding how genetic material is transferred, recovered and interpreted in criminal investigations. At its core are the processes of primary transfer, whereby DNA ...

Software Has Proven Highly Effective in Interpreting Complex Crime Scene Evidence This advancement gives us the ability to interpret complex mixtures that were previously uninterpretable using binary ...

This workshop session focused on probabilistic genotyping (PG; see Box 3-1) and featured presentations from panelists with expertise in forensic analysis, genetics, computer science, and law. It was ...

The Lab scandal involving a former Colorado forensic scientist has renewed attention on the decades-old murder investigation ...

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

The Natural Traces Consortium is transforming forensic science by expanding the range of evidence sources to include biological and environmental materials ...

EUGENE, Ore. — Forensic DNA analysis is one of law enforcement’s strongest tools in identifying unknown crime suspects, but it has its limitations. Researchers have found certain groups of people are ...

Attorneys representing death row prisoner James Duckett contend that Florida is proceeding with his July 28 execution ...

Definition: DNA amplification is the laboratory process of making many copies of a selected DNA sequence from a very small starting amount. It allows DNA that would otherwise be too scarce to detect ...

Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Research Council, the Committee on Assessing the Feasibility, Accuracy and Technical Capability of a Ballistics National Database of the ...