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 ...

Fingerprints are often found at the scene of a crime. A good source of such prints is thermal paper used for till receipts and cash machine statements. However the chemicals needed to reveal ...

10: Discovery of the DNA Fingerprint In 1984, British geneticist Sir Alec Jeffreys made an epoch-defining discovery. He realized that he could identify unique patterns in a strand of DNA, ...

It's 1984, and Dr Alec Jeffreys unlocks a technique to read every individual's DNA fingerprint, while DCS David Baker leads the search for the murderer of a schoolgirl.