Student Ambassador Poster Preview: Mia Gale on Getting Usable DNA from Rootless Hair Shafts
Mia Gale was taught that hair shafts don’t contain nuclear DNA worth pursuing. Her research produced full STR profiles from them anyway. Rootless hairs are common at crime scenes, but the nuclear DNA in a hair shaft is scarce, highly degraded, and mostly lost by standard extraction kits built for larger fragments. Her research optimized […]