Ontario's police watchdog has launched a review of the DNA sampling practices of the Ontario Provincial Police after a complaint alleging racial profiling in the case of 100 migrant workers. The workers were subjected to a testing sweep, even though for many their only similarity to the su... [More]

California deserves credit for identifying a suspected serial killer by using familial DNA searches. The successful identification of a dangerous suspect shows that these searches can be useful under carefully limited circumstances. But California’s haste to expand its DNA database a... [More]