Amanda and I started watching CSI:NY this weekend and although I know it's just a TV show I was wondering if there's any truth to the premise that they proposed in the second episode of the first ...

We’ve talked a lot about the "CSI Effect" in What Remains. Crime scene techs on popular TV shows use some magical scientific technology that doesn’t really exist to solve cases in less than an hour.

Researchers have demonstrated it's possible to remove all the DNA from samples like blood and saliva, and replace it with genetic material from a different individual—even when the only source of this ...