The facility is expected to significantly enhance the country’s criminal justice response by addressing long-standing systemic challenges in forensic evidence processing, particularly DNA analysis.

The privately owned facility was presented in Durban on Friday by Dean Macpherson, the minister of public works and ...

DNA's long-term stability and its ability to precisely confirm the identity of a potential suspect in criminal cases have supported its continuous use for forensic analyses. Recent advancements in ...

Advances in DNA sequencing technology help forensic biologists identify suspects where traditional DNA profiling has failed, ...

KZN forensic lab boosts criminal justice response to GBVF The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has described the establishment of a new forensic science laboratory in Mayville, west of Durban, as ...

The same DNA science being used to bring closure to families in long-unsolved cases is also increasingly being used as a ...

DURBAN - KwaZulu-Natal authorities hope the new SAPS Forensic Science Laboratory will ease DNA backlogs in the province.

"The capacity is just not there ... to allow these individuals, these experts, these scientists, to do the work that they need to do to deliver justice to this community." ...

In May 2006, Tim Stinson travelled to England to tour the libraries of London, Oxford and Cambridge. At the time, he was ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. It’s been more than 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci died. Yet, in those intervening ...