Does DNA hold all the clues?

Article Abstract:

A very wide range of applications has now been developed for DNA testing, but in fact this technique is not as reliable as is widely believed. Everyone has a unique DNA code, but DNA profiling is based only on the probability of an exact match. Scientists are only able to analyse part of a person's whole DNA double helix, and there is therefore always a possibility of an error being made. There is now growing concern that some miscarriages of justice may have taken place in cases where DNA testing was inadequate.

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Caught with suspicious genes

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The Home Office's Forensic Science Laboratory will obtain around 135,000 DNA samples for its new DNA database for criminal records over the next year. These will be from people suspected of sexual crimes, burglary and serious assault. This is the first database of its kind in the world, and could hold up to 5 million DNA samples by the end of the 1990s. It will eventually cover all recordable offences.

Management, Criminal registers

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Innocence is all in the genes

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The use of DNA testing to establish the innocence of prisoners is discussed. DNA testing has already led to 83 people being freed in the US. The potential for its use in the UK is considered.

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