Parental testing is the use of genetic fingerprinting to determine whether two individuals have a biological parent-child relationship.

The families have developed something we're calling genetic fingerprinting.

For the most part however, genetic fingerprinting has all but taken over all the other forms of testing.

So genetic fingerprinting may merely tell patients how quickly they can expect to die, without allowing doctors to do anything about it.

Differences between individuals, even closely related individuals, are the key to techniques such as genetic fingerprinting.

But the same information can also be used to help develop treatments or to use genetic fingerprinting to help trace the source of an attack.

The same kind of genetic fingerprinting has proved useful in some criminal cases.

Southern blotting also led to the second breakthrough, genetic fingerprinting.

However, genetic fingerprinting at the time was not advanced enough to find her killer.

As is the case with most issues related to the death penalty, genetic fingerprinting attracts passionate debate.