A UC Davis plant scientist played a key role in settling a controversial intellectual property dispute that resulted in the recent rejection of a nine-year-old U.S. patent for a common yellow bean ...

DNA: It's what makes you unique. Unless you have an identical twin, your DNA is different from that of every other person in the world. And that's what makes DNA fingerprinting possible. Experts can ...

Just like the government uses an Aadhaar number to uniquely identify an individual for social security purposes, a person’s DNA fingerprint can be used for biological purposes. This is why DNA ...

The federal government isn't alone in moving towards a policy of DNA fingerprinting everyone arrested. In Arizona, a Senate committee voted 5-1 to require anyone taken to a police station to submit to ...

Osama Bin Laden has been proclaimed dead from a gunshot wound to the head. But in today’s photoshopping era, the world demands more proof–a DNA test to identify the body is actually him. Back in late ...

DNA profiling technologies are rapidly advancing, creating the potential to identify individuals involved in making, packing and transporting illegal capsules by analysing the exterior of the illicit ...