Old-School Hair Analysis Is Junk Science. But It Still Keeps People Behind Bars The technique, developed before DNA testing, can’t definitively tie suspects to crime scenes. Try explaining that to ...

The accuracy of human hair analysis could be improved with the routine addition of body hair screening. A study published in the International Journal of Molecular Science sought to assess the ...

For decades, courts treated several forensic methods as hard science, even when the evidence behind them was weaker than most ...

A new application that uses artificial intelligence may revolutionize the way scientists study hair and could lead to the development of health diagnostics based solely on hair. The AI model speeds up ...

Forensic genetics applies molecular biology to legal and investigative contexts by analysing genetic markers to identify individuals, establish kinship and infer biogeographical ancestry or externally ...