Crime scene discovery: Scientist separates the DNA of identical twins
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
Since its first use in the 1980s -- a breakthrough dramatized in recent crime-solving dramas -- DNA profiling has been a vital tool for forensic investigators. Now researchers have solved one of its few limitations by successfully testing a technique for distinguishing between the DNA -- or genetic fingerprint -- of identical twins.