And in the private sector, many in the business of providing DNA fingerprinting services and supplying reagents for DNA testing see the NRC imprimatur as an economic boon to an already growing ...

We have developed a new fluorescence-based method for DNA fingerprinting that does not require a fluorescent linker or a synthetic oligonucleotide primer, both of which are normally used for labeling ...

The use of genetic material in forensic science has progressed significantly since its implementation little over 30 years ago. Now, scientists believe that not only can genes provide information to ...

As potential developments in the automation of DNA fingerprinting threaten to introduce vulnerabilities in the system, researchers develop ‘genetic barcodes’ to prevent sample tampering. DNA ...

Decoding the identity of biomolecules from trace samples is a longstanding goal in the field of biotechnology, and while next-generation sequencing technologies have made it possible to identify ...

Using new DNA "fingerprinting" techniques, two University of Minnesota researchers have become the first to unequivocally separate hemp plants from marijuana plants with genetic markers. Hemp, a crop ...

FORENSIC scientists in the US are applying DNA fingerprinting methods to the cannabis plant. They say the technique, which is being used to create a database of DNA profiles of different marijuana ...

Genotypes of infectious organisms are becoming the foundation for epidemiologic studies of infectious disease. Central to the use of such data is a means for comparing genotypes. We develop methods ...

Detailed DNA analysis can distinguish even very closely related samples of anthrax, scientists were to report today, a finding that could aid investigators seeking to trace the source of last year’s ...