DNA Profiles Often Languish, Justice Says
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Thousands of DNA profiles in unsolved criminal cases experience long delays before they are added to a national FBI database, jeopardizing their value in identifying suspected murderers, rapists and others, according to a Justice Department report Monday.
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Keeping in mind the above research, the genetic profiles held by police for criminal investigations cannot always be considered sophisticated since there are chances of false identification, at least one in a billion.
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The scientist who pioneered DNA fingerprinting has warned of the increasing danger of false positives as the use of the technique becomes more widespread.
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More than three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration has failed to create a unified U.S. fingerprint database because of agency infighting, meaning most visitors to the country still aren't fully screened for terrorist or criminal ties, the Justice Department's watchdog warned Wednesday.
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BOULDER, Colo.  - Lawyers for JonBenet Ramsey   murder suspect John Mark Karr asked a judge on Friday to stop   prosecutors, at least for now, from testing DNA from the   schoolteacher or forensic evidence in the decade-old case.
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The DNA of a man accused of murdering an 11-year-old child in 1975 matched that found on her body, a court hears.
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Yale University researchers have demonstrated a single change in a person&#39;s DNA can contribute to a range of life-shortening risk factors.
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FRIDAY, Jan. 18 (HealthDay News) --  Predicting brain disorders such as Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) may be possible by identifying certain DNA fingerprints, a recent Mayo Clinic study suggests.
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Eight times figure previously announced Less than two thirds of people whose profile is stored on the National DNA Database are there for having been cautioned or convicted of a criminal offence, Home Office figures have revealed.â¦
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Crucial DNA evidence tested by defense experts in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case might have been contaminated, prosecutors said in a court filing released Wednesday.
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler faced aggressive questions yesterday from a pair of legislative committees as they pitched a plan to expand the state's DNA database, one of the governor's top priorities for the General Assembly's 90-day session.
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Only if you like, in the sense that you really oughta The UK Ministry of Defence is "strongly encouraging" all its personnel to have their DNA recorded. This is supposed to make identification of their remains easier if they should die in a manner - a disastrous air crash, explosion, etc. - which would inhibit recognition by other means.â¦
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The U.S. government can require  certain criminals to submit to DNA testing after their release  from prison, a divided U.S. federal appeals court ruled on  Wednesday in a reversal of an opinion it issued last year.
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Genetic fingerprinting could allow police to determine the eye colour, hair colour and even facial features of criminal suspects just by their DNA, the scientist who discovered the technique 20 years ago said Wednesday.
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Hoping to solve and prevent more crimes, the federal government and a growing number of states are casting the DNA net wider by taking genetic samples from people accused but not convicted of breaking the law.
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Round up the usual suspects In a move reminiscent of Nazi Germany and 21st-Century Britain, the US federal government is about to implement rules requiring routine DNA collection from suspected illegal immigrants and anyone arrested by federal authorities, regardless of whether they are ever convicted of a crime. DNA collection will be performed in any situation where fingerprints would normally be collected, and only a court order will suffice to have DNA profiles removed from federal databases.â¦
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Gov. Mark R. Warner is reviewing a proposal to test random samples of old DNA evidence from thousands of crime scenes after genetic tests exonerated a man who had served 22 years in prison for two rapes, the third such reversal in Virginia.