What If You Could Screen for Mixtures Before the STR Profile? A Q&A with ISHI Student Ambassador Kiersten Fultz

Forensic DNA workflows are built around the STR profile. It’s also where analysts first learn a sample has a problem — a mixture they didn’t anticipate, a template too low to produce usable results. By then, the options for adjusting the approach have narrowed considerably. Kiersten Fultz, a master’s student in Forensic Science at Virginia […]