“Dusting for fingerprints” is a familiar term for fans of crime novels and TV shows. But if the University of Toronto’s Bethany Krebs has her way, forensic teams will soon be “sandblasting for ...

“Fingerprints can change over time, depending on the environment and variables like temperature and humidity,” she says. “We can’t always tell the age of the fingerprint, so we want to make sure that ...

INDIA Microbiome: Fingerprint identification in forensic September 12, 2023, 11:46 PM IST Shivangi Rao in ForensicScienceTech, India, TOI Facebook Twitter Linkedin ...

When you use your fingerprint to unlock your smartphone, your phone is looking at a two-dimensional pattern to determine whether it’s the correct fingerprint before it unlocks for you. But the imprint ...

Fingerprint analysis is considered an invaluable tool in forensic and security settings due to the uniqueness and permanence of the patterns. No two people have been found to share a fingerprint ...

When the microbiome came from the gut, researchers were able to identify 80 per cent of individuals. Photo: AP In forensic science, fingerprints and DNA are beginning to look old-school.