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 ...
Four parents in Michigan jumped into a long-running ethical debate over the collection and storage of newborns’ blood samples by suing to force the state to destroy their children’s samples or ...
A new Ohio law requiring anyone arrested on a felony charge to submit a DNA sample has more than doubled the amount of samples the state collected for its DNA database last year.The law that took ...
An overburdened administrator plus a lack of checks and balances in the now-defunct State Medical Examiner's Office created a situation in which the DNA samples of more than 1,600 Delaware criminals ...
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 ...
OLYMPIA, Wash. – Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced the addition of nearly 2,700 DNA samples from criminal offenders to a national law enforcement database on Wednesday. According to ...
“NIH conceived this program a few years ago, around the time specifically targeted treatments for cancer (depending upon DNA) were being launched,” said Dr. Vivian Fonseca, chief of endocrinology at ...