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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's 40 years since DNA fingerprinting was discovered by Sir Alec Jeffreys at his lab in Leicester. Within a couple of years it had revolutionised the way crimes were investigated around the world.

Alec Jeffreys, British geneticist who invented DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling. Credit: PA Images Speaking on genetic profiling, Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys said: "It does not solve crimes.