DNA fingerprinting uses chemicals to separate strands of DNA and reveal the unique parts of your genome. The results show up as a pattern of stripes that can be matched against other samples.

The Supreme Court debated Tuesday whether Maryland’s decision to collect DNA samples from people arrested for serious crimes represents an unconstitutional invasion of privacy or a crime-solving ...

The 'grandfather of DNA' stumbled across forensic fingerprinting when he was researching something completely different, he revealed today. Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, now 59, made his ...

The first episode focuses on Colin Pitchfork, the first person be convicted of murder using DNA fingerprinting. Here is more about the technique. DNA - or genetic - fingerprinting relies heavily ...

The chances of two people having the same DNA fingerprint are between 800,000 and one billion to one. But there are concerns that increasing reliance on tiny samples of blood and saliva ...

It's 40 years since DNA fingerprinting was discovered by Sir Alec Jeffreys at his lab in Leicester. Within a couple of years, it had revolutionised the way crimes were investigated around the world.

DNA fingerprinting taken for crime suspects or convicts is only of a “certain negligible part” looking for more variations to prove the uniqueness of the person concerned and will not give out ...

Professor Paul Gepts, an expert on the processes that have shaped the evolution of crop plants, along with colleagues from the University of Padova, Italy, used DNA fingerprinting in 2004 to show that ...

But researchers are starting to “fingerprint” leatherback sea turtle hatchlings to try to unlock some of those secrets. Federal researchers plan to take DNA samples from the baby sea turtles ...