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Reason October 2001 Rhys Southan	DNA on Demand Scotland's Strathclyde Police don't blink twice when it comes to slighting privacy for crime detection. In March, Scotland's largest police department announced that officers would take DNA samples from everyone they arrest, no matter how minor the crime...
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Reason December 2008 Radley Balko	Innocence Denied As the science of DNA testing improves, labs can go further and further back in time to test even damaged and partially decomposed DNA evidence.
Chemistry World November 2007 Lisa Melton	Courtroom Chemistry When analyzing the smallest traces of evidence at a crime scene, chemistry is key.
AskMen.com Ross Bonander	5 Things You Didn't Know: DNA With human cloning and other controversial bombshells waiting just around the corner, expect DNA to remain in the public eye for decades to come.
Wired December 20, 2007 Melba Newsome	A New DNA Test Can ID a Suspect's Race, But Police Won't Touch It Combining race with crime is always a sensitive subject, despite the nature of the discovery.
Chemistry World October 5, 2012 Patrick Walter	Forensic lab error led to miscarriage of justice A forensics error has led to an innocent man being held for five months on a charge of rape in the UK. The DNA sample from the rape victim was contaminated during a routine DNA extraction procedure, although this is thought to have been an isolated incident.
National Defense July 2013 Stew Magnuson	DNA Testing Machine Reduces Labs to the Size of a Desktop Printer The RapidHit 200 Human Identification System promises to radically alter the way law enforcement conducts investigations.
Reason Aug/Sep 2001 Gene Callahan & William Anderson	The Roots of Racial Profiling Why are police targeting minorities for traffic stops?
Bio-IT World September 11, 2003 Melissa Kruse	Soul Searching Two years ago, 2,792 lives were lost in the collapse of the World Trade Center. While rescuers labored night and day to recover the bodies, a small Michigan software company set about salvaging their identities.
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 Sargur N. Srihari	Beyond C.S.I.: The Rise of Computational Forensics Pattern recognition and other computational methods can reduce the bias inherent in traditional criminal forensics
Searcher September 2003 Kenneth Fink	Criminology Web Sites: An Annotated "Webliography" This list may serve as an introduction to the many Web sites devoted to both the prosaic and exotic in the field of criminology.
Reason February 2005 Julian Sanchez	Songs of Innocence The Justice for All Act of 2004, signed into law in October, grants federal convicts a right to have potentially exculpatory DNA evidence considered by courts.
Popular Mechanics August 2009 Brad Reagan	CSI Myths: The Shaky Science Behind Forensics Bite marks, blood-splatter patterns, ballistics, and hair, fiber and handwriting analysis sound compelling in the courtroom, but much of the "science" behind forensic science rests on surprisingly shaky foundations.
Bio-IT World June 2005 Robert M. Frederickson	Crime Pays for DNAPrint Genomics DNAWITNESS 2.0 is used by law enforcement agencies to determine the likely genetic heritage of DNA samples obtained from crime scenes -- thereby narrowing the potential pool of suspects or victims.
Popular Mechanics July 27, 2009 Brad Reagan	The Truth About 4 Common Forensics Methods Room for doubt in deciphering the information in four important types of criminal evidence
Salon.com September 5, 2000 David Horowitz	The civil rights movement is dead, RIP Black leaders like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson criticize racialing profiling in the legal system, but they espouse the same logic in their own politics.
Reason February 2003 Ronald Bailey	Guilt Tip DNA testing and justice: Voters seem to agree that if the state is going to claim the awesome power to execute murderers, it should make every effort to insure that those it kills are in fact guilty.
Salon.com March 17, 2000 Alicia Montgomery	Angels of justice Barry Scheck and Jim Dwyer talk about the Innocence Project, which has helped overturn eight wrongful convictions of death-row inmates.
Reason November 2002 Joyce Lee Malcolm	Gun Control's Twisted Outcome Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S.
Reason April 2004 Anderson & Jackson	Washington's Biggest Crime Problem The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution.
Reason November 2007 Roger Koppl	Breaking Up the Forensics Monopoly America's forensics system, the part of our criminal justice system responsible for scientific examinations of crime-scene evidence like fingerprints and DNA, is rife with errors. Here are eight ways to fix the broken system.
Chemistry World January 15, 2014 Kirsty Muirhead	Biomarkers leave gender clues at crime scene Scientists in the US have unveiled details of a colorimetric assay that could provide an initial indication of a suspect's gender during the on-scene stages of a forensic investigation.
Popular Mechanics July 2006 David Dobbs	Forensics Under Fire The unparalleled accuracy of DNA analysis has forced traditional forensic science to stand trial.
Salon.com July 9, 2001 David Horowitz	Cops are not to blame Who is responsible for the recent killings of blacks in Cincinnati? Liberals and "civil rights" crusaders...
Salon.com June 12, 2000 Alan Berlow	Bush's death penalty dodge The Texas governor has issued his first reprieve in a death penalty case; the question is whether he's seen the light or is just playing politics.
Bio-IT World June 2005 Kevin Davies	First Base: Genes, Geography, and History The National Genographic Project will collect blood samples from populations around the globe, then use genetic data to trace population origins and migration routes. Some groups are critical.
Wired April 24, 2007 Vince Beiser	One Database Under the Law Within the next few years the Justice Department will build an unprecedented network of databases from the FBI, the DEA, the ATF, the Bureau of Prisons, and the US Marshals Service.
Popular Mechanics December 2007 Paul Tolme	Wildlife CSI: Inside the Case of the Poisoned Meatballs Crime labs investigate illegal killings of endangered species.
ifeminists April 30, 2007 Stephen Baskerville	Duke Case Demonstrates Feminist "Justice" Decades of pursuing illusory, subjective, and politically defined "justice" have left Americans so incapable of distinguishing guilt from innocence that we are now inured to the most open injustice.
Bio-IT World October 14, 2004 Mark D. Uehling	Not-So-Cool DNA Storage With robotics and innovative sample tagging, GenVault offers DNA archiving with no freezer burn.
Salon.com May 1, 2000 Arthur Allen	Listening to DNA The genome project is getting the buzz. But the real breakthroughs may come from labs out of the limelight, like Gene Logic.
Bio-IT World September 11, 2003 Kevin Davies	Bioinformatics and National Service A small bioinformatics company gets called into the national service.
Wired July 21, 2008 Thomas Goetz	How the Personal Genome Project Could Unlock the Mysteries of Life The project will turn information from 100,000 subjects into a huge database that can reveal the connections between our genes and our physical selves. Here's how.
Reason Aug/Sep 2009 Jacob Sullum	Step Away From the Car: Rare Fourth Amendment victory In April the U.S. Supreme Court said police may no longer routinely search the vehicles of recently arrested people, a practice that was considered constitutional for nearly three decades.
Technology Research News August 25, 2004	DNA Copier Uses Little Power Today's laboratory DNA detectors require a lot of energy. Researchers have devised a method that copies the way DNA is replicated biologically in order to avoid the energy-intensive heating and cooling process.
PC Magazine December 24, 2003	Bits & Bytes (v23n1) Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have used DNA to create a self-assembling nanoscale transistor... 125 Internet crime suspects arrested in November...
Chemistry World July 2010 Anna Lewcock	Medicine made to measure Healthcare tailored to suit the genetic makeup of the patient is finally coming to fruition.
Chemistry World December 1, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Hard questions after litany of forensic failures at US labs At least five high profile cases of serious malpractice at US forensic crime labs have come to light in the last two years.
Chemistry World March 1, 2011 Catherine Bacon	Unravelling chromosomes Danish scientists have used a micro device to isolate centimetre-long portions of human DNA to help study the genetic make-up of diseased cells.
Reason April 2009 Radley Balko	Super Sperm When it comes to the people he prosecutes, Michael Mermel, chief of the criminal division for the Lake County, Illinois, State's Attorney's Office, seems to have more faith in his hunches than he does in science.
Chemistry World January 2012	DNA motors on With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success
Chemistry World October 8, 2012 Rebecca Trager	US crime lab chemist arrest causes reverberations Last month's arrest of a chemist, who worked in a Massachusetts Department of Public Health state laboratory, for allegedly falsifying evidence used in criminal cases is prompting calls for major forensic science reform in the US.
Chemistry World July 16, 2009 James Urquhart	New DNA technique sheds light on ancient populations A new sequencing technique that is cheaper and less wasteful has been used to decode and analyse the mitochondrial genomes of five Neanderthal individuals.
BusinessWeek November 7, 2005 Catherine Arnst	How Likely Are You To Get Sick? A new DNA database could gauge your risk for disease.
Bio-IT World October 9, 2002 Salvatore Salamone	Calculating with DNA Scientists have demonstrated that DNA computers can solve complex problems, but the verdict is out on whether they will ever become practical.
Chemistry World November 7, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Rocket-propelled read-out for new DNA chip US researchers have invented a lab-on-a-chip that can measure how much of a specific strand of DNA is in a sample using a 'rocket-propelled' thread of ink that can be read by eye.
Salon.com February 13, 2001 Arthur Allen	Size doesn't matter As scientists unveil the human genome findings, it turns out we have a lot fewer genes than we'd thought, and not many more than a fruit fly...