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DNA database

November 2023

  • Dr Elinor Breman, a researcher at the Millennium Seed Bank, Wakehurst, Sussex.

    The doomsday vaults storing seeds, data and DNA to protect our future

    Around the world, highly secure chambers are being built to preserve everything we need to withstand any number of worst-case scenarios

February 2023

  • In 1971, Rita Curran, a 24-year-old schoolteacher, was found strangled to death in her apartment in Vermont.

    Vermont police use cigarette DNA to solve woman’s murder, 52 years on

  • A CSI (Crime Scene Investigator) swabbing blood left at a crime scene.

    Police in England and Wales botch more than 1,500 DNA samples

February 2022

  • San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin said, ‘This practice treats victims like evidence, not human beings.’

    San Francisco DA drops charges against woman whose rape kit DNA linked her to a property crime

    District attorney Chesa Boudin said the charges violated constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures

January 2021

  • 3D DNA image

    NSW police to ask relatives of missing persons to offer their DNA

  • Priti Patel

    Priti Patel faces growing pressure over deletion of police records

February 2020

  • A forensic police officer at work in London.

    Forensic science failures putting justice at risk, says regulator

    System on a ‘knife-edge’ due to skills shortages and funding cuts in England and Wales

November 2019

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    When governments have access to DNA databases, you’re right to be scared

    John Naughton
    We should be wary of what authorities can do with such sensitive genetic information

September 2019

  • Illustration by James Melaugh.

    Will genome sequencing bring precision medicine for all?

    The health secretary wants to introduce genetic screening to the NHS – but many firms are already selling cheap testing kits

August 2019

  • Barrister wearing wig

    Rape case highlights need for legal reform

    Letter: Dr Jonathan Rogers responds to a report about a woman born after rape who wants to use her DNA to prosecute her father

June 2019

  • Gyula and Erszebet Keimovits, the author's great grandparents.

    What does it mean to be genetically Jewish?

  • Dani Shapiro, with long, blonde hair, looking at the camera, with her hands folded beneath her chin

    Dani Shapiro: ‘Science will bring an end to these family secrets’

December 2018

  • Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore at work.

    How taking a home genetics test could help catch a murderer

    Specialists are using public-access DNA databases to track down violent criminals such as the notorious Golden State Killer. But the technique raises a host of legal and ethical questions

September 2018

  • Sara Altschule, who took a DNA test and found out she had a high risk of developing breast cancer.

    'Your father's not your father': when DNA tests reveal more than you bargained for

    Genetic tests are seen as harmless fun. But the secrets they can reveal can split families and leave users traumatised

May 2018

  • Joseph James DeAngelo, the suspected "Golden State Killer", appears in court for his arraignment on April 27, 2018 in Sacramento, California. DeAngelo, a 72-year-old former police officer, is believed to be the East Area Rapist who killed at least 12 people, raped over 45 women and burglarized hundreds of homes throughout California in the 1970s and 1980s. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

    Chips with Everything
    Golden State Killer: the end of DNA privacy? Chips with Everything podcast

    US investigators recently tracked down the suspect of a 40-year-old murder case after uploading DNA to a genealogy website. Jordan Erica Webber weighs up the pros of finding ancestors with the cons of selling privacy

October 2017

  • A Police forensic team search in front of the Policing Board headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on November 23, 2009. Northern Ireland was on edge Monday after a huge car bomb only just failed to cause devastation at the weekend, in a new threat to the long-troubled province’s fragile peace process. Dissident republicans may even be planning a Christmas “spectacular”, reports suggested after two incidents within hours fuelled fears of renewed violence, more than a decade after a landmark peace accord. AFP PHOTO/Peter Muhly (Photo credit should read PETER MUHLY/AFP/Getty Images)

    DNA in the dock: how flawed techniques send innocent people to prison

    Many juries believe crime-scene DNA evidence is watertight – but this is far from the case. As forensic technology gets ever more sophisticated, experts are only just realising how difficult interpreting the evidence can be

August 2016

  • Castle of Burgos, Sardinia, Italy, 12th century

    Ethical questions raised in search for Sardinian centenarians' secrets

    Samples from residents of Sardinia’s ‘Blue Zone’ famed for longevity have been sold to for-profit research firm Tiziana

June 2016

  • Lynda Mann (left) and Dawn Ashworth, the 15-year-old victims of rapist and murderer Colin Pitchfork.

    Killer breakthrough – the day DNA evidence first nailed a murderer

    It’s 30 years since DNA fingerprinting was first used in a police investigation. The technique has since put millions of criminals behind bars – and it all began when one scientist stumbled on the idea in a failed experiment

May 2016

  • Leather cut-out sandals

    Brief letters
    Give the gladiator sandals another summer

  • Melanie Road, Photograh: Family handout/PA Wire

    Mother of Melanie Road thankful for justice after 32 years – video

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