Police DNA sampling warning

With his DNA matched to semen left behind, along with a newspaper splotched with his fingerprints, there was little doubt Virgil DeBose sexually assaulted 78-year-old Audrey Mulligan six years ago, a prosecutor strongly suggested to jurors ...

Defense points to lack of DNA, fingerprint evidence in 2006 Lake County killing James Ealy killed a Lake County restaurant manager for two basic reasons because he wanted to, and because he could, a prosecutor said Tuesday at the start of Ealy's ...

Along with fingerprinting and photographing, cops should be also be able to swab suspected criminals cheeks for DNA as part of the routine booking procedure, police representatives in Alberta say. Armed with its Legislative and Police Strategy ...

Nearly six years after raping a woman on an Invercargill street, Norman Barry Ladbrook's genetic fingerprint has come back to haunt him. Ladbrook's DNA sample, taken in November last year after he was arrested on another matter, linked him to the ...

DNA and fingerprints found on explosive fragments at the scene of the Boston Marathon bombing do not match those of the elder terror suspect's wife, CBS reports. Katherine Russell, the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, initially came under scrutiny when ...

Biologists can identify most species on the planet with a unique piece of DNA, almost like scanning a fingerprint database. Watching certain episodes of the the original Star Trek, it's hard not to laugh at the show's 1960s-era technology ...

The female DNA and fingerprints found on a piece of one of the Boston marathon explosives does not match those of Katherine Russell, the 24-year-old widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Russell had been under suspicion following the discovery of female DNA, ...

U.S. scientists say DNA research suggests cancer treatment will increasingly focus on its genetic fingerprint rather than on the organ where it originated. The findings come out of research in a large-scale project by the National Institutes of ...