In October, the City Council introduced a bill to limit the NYPD’s collection of DNA samples. Co-sponsors Diana Ayala and Donovan Richards seek to prevent gathering samples from minors without their ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation (SMGF) today announced, in conjunction with the 2010 National Genealogical Society Family History Conference, that its ...

Gardaí in a number of divisions have failed to submit forensic data satisfactorily to the National DNA Database System, according to a new report. The database is used to investigate and solve crimes ...

The government is planning to get around a European court ruling that condemned Britain's retention of the DNA profiles of more than 800,000 innocent people by keeping the original samples used to ...

Last week, Interpol held a final project review of its speaker identification system, a four-year, 10 million euro project that has recently come to completion. The Speaker Identification Integrated ...

Two University of B.C. researchers have found that Canada is the slowest country at reporting H5N1 avian flu data to a global genome database, which they say could have implications as scientists ...

With Rapid DNA machines, genetic fingerprinting could become as routine as the old-fashioned kind. But forensic experts see a potential for misuse. By Heather Murphy BENSALEM, Pa. — They call it the ...

(New York) – China’s police are collecting DNA from individuals for a nationally searchable database without oversight, transparency, or privacy protections, Human Rights Watch said today. Evidence ...

Gene replacement therapy cannot easily fix a disease caused by a faulty gene, for as David Brown points out, "human biology is so complicated." (iStockphoto) Rwanda has proposed the world’s first ...