Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that AI-assisted code can silently rewrite the digital files produced by the forensic DNA machines used in crime labs — the same computerized scan ...

Crime documentaries and courtroom dramas offer only a glimpse into the complex world of forensic science. While DNA analysis plays a key role in identifying suspects or victims, the scope of ...

Victims of serious crimes like rape and murder are waiting an extraordinary 398 days for testing compared to five to 10 days in other states, according to a new report into Queensland’s ...

Scientists have identified a security flaw in DNA crime-lab files in the US. Researchers say the vulnerability affects digital DNA analysis files generated by equipment used in most US crime ...

This 2011 file photo shows a laboratory manager preparing a control sample to use in DNA tests at the Regional Forensic Science Center. File The Wichita Eagle The center that provides forensic testing ...

Kathy Eppler had waited seven years to see the man who murdered her two brothers and sister-in-law be punished for his crimes. Garrett Coughlin was sentenced to life without parole in the triple ...

In June 2021, Australian forensic biologist Kirsty Wright was on holiday when she got a phone call from a journalist who was investigating a young woman’s unsolved murder and needed an expert to ...

Y-STR testing, which enables the detection of trace amounts of male DNA, has been used in NSW since 2009 and been available in ­almost every lab in Australia for at least the past eight years. In his ...