Fingerprinting became widespread in the early 20th century. Illustration by Kotryna Zukauskaite. At 9:00 a.m. last December 14, a man in Orange County, California, discovered he’d been robbed.

Therapeutic antibodies are prone to degradation via a variety of pathways during each stage of the manufacturing process. Hence, a low-cost, rapid, and broadly applicable tool that is able to identify ...

In the mid-80s Sir Alec had discovered that every person has a so-called DNA "fingerprint" that's unique to them. It was a chemical code held in every single cell of the human body. Technology ...