Forensic conference seeks global standards on DNA

Forensic experts at an international conference said on Monday that unified standards and regulated procedures in DNA identification will play a bigger role in fighting crime and safeguarding public safety by increasing criminal cooperation.

The Silk Road Forensic Consortium provides a platform for forensic experts from home and abroad to exchange ideas and challenges, and it can do more in DNA identification studies and applications, the experts said at the 3rd Conference of Silk Road Forensic Consortium in Yantai, Shandong province.

The consortium is planning to unify DNA identification standards and regulate the identification procedures of its members in "trying to build a mutual DNA database to better help solve criminal cases", said Henry Chang-Yu Lee, a globally renowned forensic scientist and the consortium's chairman.