- Innocence Project
Nonprofit legal clinic handling cases where postconviction DNA testing of evidence can yield conclusive proof of innocence.
www.innocenceproject.org
- Human Genome Project: DNA Forensics
Outlines different processes for the examination of unique DNA sequences in order to precisely identify the characteristics of individuals or species. Discusses ethical, legal, and social issues.
www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/forensics.shtml
- HowStuffWorks: How DNA Evidence Works
Look at how DNA "fingerprinting" works and what DNA evidence can be used for.
www.howstuffworks.com/dna-evidence.htm
- DNA Testing: An Introduction for Non-Scientists
Offers an illustrated and simplified explanation of DNA testing for those who may have limited backgrounds in biological science.
www.scientific.org/tutorials/articles/riley/riley.html
- DNA Forensics
Looks at how forensic identification works, how DNA typing is done, and the ethical, legal, and social issues associated with DNA databanking.
www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/elsi/forensics.html
- NOVA: Killer's Trail
Read a chronology of the Sam Sheppard murder case, and learn about the forensic evidence technologies of DNA fingerprinting and 3D mug shots.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sheppard
- Hope Denise Hall DNA Action Memorial
Seeks to implement an international DNA database to help solve crimes.
hope-dna.com
- Frontline: The Case for Innocence
Examines the science of DNA testing, and the controversy over its use when introduced as new evidence in already decided criminal cases.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/case
- Frontline: What Jennifer Saw
Examines the case of Ronald Cotton, who was twice wrongly accused of rape, and questions the reliability of eyewitness identification and the accuracies of DNA evidence.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dna
- Forensic Biology Laboratory - University of Alabama at Birmingham
Research concerns the overlapping subjects of forensic entomology, and identification of specimens using mitochondrial DNA.
www.dpo.uab.edu/~jwells/FBL.html
- DNA Testing: Introduction and Index
Learn about the strengths, limitations, and controversies of DNA Testing; DNA polymorphisms: the basis of DNA typing; techniques for DNA testing and the applications of DNA tests.
www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/genetics/medgen/dnatesting
- DNA Technology in Forensic Science
1992 Commission on Life Sciences publication.
books.nap.edu/books/0309045878/html/index.html
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