and many archaeologists have been reluctant to hand over their most precious finds to DNA labs. Now, scientists have found a way to extract DNA in a non-invasive manner, applying the pioneering ...

Within this ball of yarn are your genes, which are regions of DNA that get copied and ... Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have developed a vector that ... developed a lab-on-a-chip ...

Call it the science of small, but a trio of University of Florida chemical engineers have developed a lab-on-a-chip ... and ...

Scientists persisted with an automated extraction method despite concerns it yielded 90 per cent less DNA, a commission into a state-run lab has heard. An inquiry is looking at Forensic and ...

Tom Nurthen, who led the automation team in the lab, has given evidence to a new commission of inquiry that he believed at the time the DNA extraction method was introduced that it was not ...

A second review into the state’s scandal-plagued DNA lab labelled an extraction method “fatally flawed”, likely resulting in critical evidence for criminal trials being missed. A second ...

A year’s worth of data from 2012-13 showed the method was recovering four times less DNA than another extraction method used in the lab at the time, Dr Wright said. An explanation for the lab ...