China uses DNA database to reunite 2000 missing kids with parents

The DNA database of parents of missing children in China has helped over 2,000 abducted kids return home, an official has revealed.

UNODC hosts International Forensic Strategic Alliance meeting

WAM Vienna, Mar 01th, 2012 (WAM)–United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) convened a meeting of the International Forensic Strategic Alliance in Vienna on 28 and 29 February to encourage international cooperation in forensic science.

Forensic research in Britain ‘will die’ after FSS closure

The Telegraph UK
Britain’s world-leading forensic research base “will die” after the only public body dedicated to crime-scene science was finally closed today, according to the expert who pioneered DNA fingerprinting techniques.