Yearly Archives
2016
Two Novel Multiplex INDEL Assays for use with Degraded DNA Samples
Jan 25 2016
Most commercially available STR kits yield amplified fragments with lengths between 100 and 500 base pairs. However degraded biological samples typically are fragmented into p...
Aiding the Innocent: How Witness to Innocence Supports the Wrongly Convicted
Jan 18 2016
ISHI 26 featured Kirk Bloodsworth, the first person sentenced to death who was exonerated through DNA evidence. Twenty of the 336 people who have been exonerated through post-...
Identifying 140 Year-Old Remains Using Massively Parallel DNA Sequencing
Jan 11 2016
The goal of forensic DNA testing of human skeletal remains is identification of the unknown individual. A variety of genetic markers can be used to achieve identification, inc...
An Evaluation of a New Rapid DNA Platform for Field Forward Applications
Jan 04 2016
Between the years of 2005 and 2010, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) reserved $58 million to assist in the reduction of the arrestee and offender DNA backlog. Conside...