Crime scene
DNA as a crime fighting tool: Why we may be in danger of putting too much faith in it
What happens to a society when there’s suddenly a new way to identify people—to track them as they move around ...
Crime scene conundrum: Your DNA can wind up on something you never even touched
A 10-second handshake could transfer a person’s DNA to an object that the person never touched. In handshaking experiments, people ...
Crime scene investigators couldn’t tell identical twins’ DNA apart. Until now
One night in November 1999, a 26-year-old woman was raped in a parking lot in Grand Rapids, Mich. Police officers ...
DNA forensic analysis soon will be ‘vastly more powerful’—good for crime fighting, problematic for privacy
Genetic sleuthing techniques that led to the arrest of a suspect in the infamous Golden State Killer case this year ...
