General Research Resources

• National Criminal Justice Reference Center—NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. The NCJRS' DNA and Forensic topic pages offer Q&A, publications, and links to additional resources.
• Science.gov—The Federal Government's gateway to authoritative selected science information by U.S. Government agencies. Search the keyword "DNA" for over 1000 results. The Science.gov ALERTS feature will notify you weekly of new Science.gov information in your specific areas of interest. See a collection of Science.gov ALERTS for 'DNA' posted weekly to this site.
• PubMed—PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicinethat includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
• The National Science Foundation—The National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…."  View search results for the keyword "DNA" from the NSF Awards Database.
• DNA Measurements Group—This group focuses on research efforts to meet goals and objectives in areas of measurement science, standards, and data dissemination. Projects include the measurement of DNA damage and DNA repair, the characterization of DNA including mutation detection and genetic toxicology, human identity profiling, and the development of DNA Standard Reference Materials. The DNA Measurements Group is part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology,  U.S. Department of Commerce.