DNA identification is one of the most powerful tools in forensic science. 

it can pinpoint who was at a crime scene and even uncover who was behind the crime. 

But how does it work?

Dr Sophie Calabretto talks to Cosmos Magazine journalist Matthew Agius about the power of DNA in forensics and how profiling has cracked open cold cases more than 50 years old.

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