Biometric News

Posted April 23, 2012:

• Biometrics: Those Tell-Tale Signs That Say Who You Are

Posted April 18, 2012:

• Iris Recognition Report Evaluates 'Needle in Haystack' Search Capability

Posted April 17, 2012:

• Cognitive Biometrics: A Very Personal Login

Posted April 8, 2012:

• New 'Genetic Bar Code' Technique Establishes Ability to Derive DNA Information from RNA

Posted April 5, 2012:

• Detecting Breast Cancer's Fingerprint in a Droplet of Blood

Posted March 27, 2012:

• Molecular Braille Created to Identify DNA Molecules
• Microfluidic Chip Developed to Stem Flu Outbreaks
• Research Gives Hope to Detecting Cancer in Early Stages

Posted March 20, 2012:

• Oil from Deepwater Horizon Disaster Entered Food Chain in the Gulf of Mexico

Posted March 19, 2012:

• To Combat Identity Theft, Protect Computer, Experts Say

Posted March 15, 2012:

• Protein Researchers Unravel the Molecular Dance of DNA Repair

Posted February 17, 2012:

• Who Goes There? Verifying Identity Online

Posted February 9, 2012:

• Potential for Incorrect Relationship Identification in New Forensic Familial Searching Techniques
• Barriers to the Use of Fingerprint Evidence in Court Is Unlocked by Statistical Model

Posted January 20, 2012:

• Elusive Z-DNA Found on Nucleosomes

Posted December 14, 2011:

• New Test Could Help Track Down and Prosecute Terrorists Who Use Nerve Gas and Other Agents

Posted December 8, 2011:

• Catching Terrorists: Backpacks, Not the Bombs Inside, Key to Finding DNA

Posted December 7, 2011:

• New Biometric Data Standard Adds DNA, Footmarks and Enhanced Fingerprint Descriptions

Posted December 6, 2011:

• Aging Human Bodies and Aging Human Oocytes Run on Different Clocks
• Genetic Markers Help Feds Enforce Seafood Regulations

Posted November 29, 2011:

• Environment and Diet Leave Their Prints on the Heart

Posted November 28, 2011:

• An Unexpected Player in a Cancer Defense System

Posted November 21, 2011:

• How We See Family Resemblance in Faces

Posted November 16, 2011:

• False Confessions May Lead to More Errors in Evidence, Study Shows

Posted November 10, 2011:

• Prototype Hand-Held Drug Testing Device Launched

Posted November 3, 2011:

• The Perfect Clone: Researchers Hack RFID Smartcards

Posted October 14, 2011:

• The Future of Airport Passport Control

Posted October 13, 2011:

• Tests to Catch the Makers of Dangerous 'Legal High' Designer Drugs

Posted October 11, 2011:

• Computer Vision Experts Develop 'Questionable Observer Detector'

Posted October 6, 2011:

• Vectors of Bluetongue Get a Name

Posted September 26, 2011:

• Scanner Spies Document Secrets

Posted September 21, 2011:

• CSI: Microbial Version Without PCR

Posted September 19, 2011:

• Genetic Defect That Leaves Some Without Fingerprints: Researchers Trace Cause to Rare Mutation

Posted September 9, 2011:

• Groundbreaking DNA Tests Could Trap Deer Poachers
• Children Better Witnesses Than Previously Thought, Swedish Psychologist Finds

Posted September 8, 2011:

• Have We Met Before? Direct Connections Found Between Areas of Brain Responsible for Voice and Face Recognition

Posted August 11, 2011:

• Facing Up to Better Face Recognition

Posted August 4, 2011:

• Mutation Linked With the Absence of Fingerprints

Posted August 2, 2011:

• Special Software Helps Researchers Identify Individual Animals When Studying Behavior in the Wild

Posted July 29, 2011:

• Pioneering Fingermark Technology Uses Mass Spectrometry Imaging to Provide Crime Scene Investigators With Key Extra Details

Posted July 28, 2011:

• How Bats Stay on Target Despite the Clutter

Posted July 21, 2011:

• Fingerprinting Fugitive Dust: Tracking Soil Microbes Back to Their Source

Posted July 6, 2011:

• Nano Detector for Deadly Anthrax

Posted June 30, 2011:

• Using DNA in Fight Against Illegal Logging

Posted June 21, 2011:

• Unexpected Differences in Privacy Regulations Revealed in New UK Study

Posted June 8, 2011:

• Saving Wildlife With Forensic Genetics

Posted May 23, 2011:

• Particle Trap Paves Way for Personalized Medicine

Posted May 17, 2011:

• 'Barcoding Blitz' on Australian Moths and Butterflies
• Better Passwords Get With the Beat

Posted May 11, 2011:

• Dusting for Fingerprints -- It Ain't CSI

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