DNA Can Be Faked, Say Scientists Who Created Test to Detect Fraud

Those who know what they're doing can readily fake DNA evidence, fabricating genetic material to masquerade as someone other than the actual donor and creating a "match" to a known DNA profile, according to a recent academic article by Israeli scientists.

“You can just engineer a crime scene,” says Dan Frumkin, lead author of the FSI: Genetics article, "Authentication of forensic DNA samples."

“Any biology undergraduate could perform this,” Frumkin says.

Frumkin is a founder of an Israel-based company, Nucleix, that has developed a test to identify fake DNA samples, the New York Times notes.