An international team has developed a novel tool to accurately predict eye, hair and skin color from human biological material -- even a small DNA sample -- left, for example, at a crime scene or ...

More and more information is being gathered about how human genes influence medically relevant traits, such as the propensity to develop a certain disease. The ultimate goal is to predict whether or ...

We all know that DNA evidence can make or break a forensic investigation, but it’s not uncommon for police to encounter DNA at a crime scene that doesn’t match with entries in any DNA databases. But ...

A new tool by researchers at the School of Science at IUPUI and Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam in the Netherlands can predict your hair, skin, and eye color from your DNA data. The ...

When Pam Kinamore left work on a Friday evening, July 12, 2002, she never came home. Four days later a Louisiana state worker discovered her body near the Baton Rouge Whiskey Bay Bridge. An autopsy ...

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Imagine if criminals conveniently left calling cards at crime scenes that helped describe the culprits. Barring video or photographic evidence, the closest investigators have come to this dream has ...

The color of the eyes and hair of ancestors dead for hundreds of years can now be revealed from their DNA alone, researchers say. These findings suggest investigators not only can uncover new details ...

Police might soon be able to tell the eye colour of criminals from DNA recovered from crime scenes, thanks to a new genetic study. A team of scientists led by Manfred Kayser, of Erasmus University ...

INDIANAPOLIS - An international team, led by scientists from the School of Science at IUPUI and Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam in the Netherlands, has developed a novel tool to ...