Recent admissions by the FBI involving data errors in calculating DNA probabilities are challenging the infallibility of DNA evidence, a science with a longstanding reputation of as the forensic gold ...

DNA profiling, as it has been known since 1994, has been used in the criminal justice system since the late 1980s, and was originally termed “DNA fingerprinting”. The DNA in every human is very ...

Not surprisingly, the use of DNA testing has both increased in use by individuals throughout the world as a result of increase interest in genealogy, but also due to extensive medical research being ...

The execution of a convicted Fort Worth killer, scheduled for next month, has been called off while a state commission addresses concerns raised recently about DNA statistics and interpretation.

Days before christmas, Robert Shapiro sent reporters covering the O.J. Simpson saga his own version of genetic samples: toiletry sets from Bijan, the Hollywood perfumery du jour. The fragrance? DNA ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), Vol. 161, No. 2 (1998), pp. 199-208 (10 pages) Understanding the causes and consequences of genetic variation in human ...

PHOENIX -- Recent admissions by the FBI involving data errors in calculating DNA probabilities are challenging the infallibility of DNA evidence, a science with a longstanding reputation as the ...