British scientist Alec Jeffreys realized 25 years ago Thursday that individuals have "DNA fingerprints," unique patterns of genetic material that can be used to identify them.

Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, who in 1984 discovered a method of showing the variation in the DNA of individuals, will receive the Copley Medal of the Royal Society, which has been awarded to ...

Sir Alec Jeffreys: The 3 cases that make me proud of my genetic fingerprinting discovery 'That was the moment I knew DNA was going to do something potentially rather big' leicestermercury.

Professor Alec Jeffreys holds a copy of the first DNA fingerprint profile at the University of Leicester on Wednesday. Jeffreys, the scientist who discovered genetic "fingerprinting" two decades ...

Life changing DNA It's 25 years since Alec Jeffreys made the accidental discovery of the first DNA fingerprint, which transformed forensics – and his life. The first DNA "fingerprint" was a ...

Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys had a "eureka" moment at 9:05am on Monday 10 September 1984 in his University of Leicester laboratory. It was when, as part of an unrelated failed experiment, he ...

If ever someone deserved the title "legend" it is Prof. Sir Alec Jeffreys. Listen to an exclusive interview with BBC Radio Leiceter's John Florance as he discusses DNA fingerprinting and how it ...

Desperate for help, they approached the geneticist Sir Alec Jeffreys. Working out of Leicester University, he had recently taken the scientific world by storm. In the mid-80s Sir Alec had discovered ...

The police approached Jeffreys's team, asking for help on a double rape and murder case of two teenagers from Narborough, just 5 miles southeast of his university. Though the crimes were two and a ...

Luckily, around the same time, geneticist Sir Alec Jeffreys of the University of Leicester had successfully developed a new DNA profiling method, originally intended for paternity testing. While few ...

DNA tech means remains of AI crash victims will reach their kin. It has also changed the world When Garuda Airways flight 152 crashed on Sept 26, 1997, many of the 234 fliers were ...