Student options boil down to public or private schools. Public medical school tuition averaged $16,690 per year in 2006-2007 for in-state residents, according to the American Association of Medical Colleges . To complete the four-year degree program the average cost is about $66,750.
DNA Fingerprinting History: Its First Use in Criminology. written by: Paul Arnoldâ¢edited by: Paul Arnoldâ¢updated: 3/12/2015. DNA fingerprinting was first applied to a criminal case in 1986, a year after the world first heard about the technology.
The 1980s ended with a few DNA firsts: the use of DNA to solve a crime and exonerate an innocent suspect, in 1986, and, in 1987, the introduction of DNA profiling in the U.S. A criminal court case in which the admissibility of DNA was seriously challenged set in motion a string of events that culminated in a call for certification, accreditation, standardization and quality control guidelines for both DNA laboratories and the general forensic community.