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Tara Luther
Using Databases to Find Scholarly Sources
Jan 18 2022
Today’s guest blog was written in collaboration with Melissa Martin, a former global marketing intern with Promega. She is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison wh...
Kentucky State Police Rapid DNA Program: Analyzing Sexual Assault Kits Utilizing the ANDE 6C Instrument
Jan 17 2022
Today’s blog is written by guest blogger, Regina Wells, DNA Database Supervisor, Kentucky State Police Central Forensic Laboratory. Reposted from The ISHI Report with permis...
This Week in Forensic Science
Jan 14 2022
No one has hours to scour the papers to keep up with the latest news, so we’ve curated the top news stories in the field of Forensic Science for this week. Here’s...
Debunking Myths Surrounding Law Enforcement’s Use of Forensic Genetic Genealogy
Jan 12 2022
In 2018, a new technique named Joseph DeAngelo as the Golden State Killer when a small team of investigators uploaded his DNA profile into a publicly available DNA database to...
Writing Successful Grants: Consider Your Audience
Jan 11 2022
This blog is part four of a four-part series on grant writing inspired by resources published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and others. Today’s guest blog was w...
Sequencing Mitochondrial DNA Extracted from Historic Human Remains
Jan 10 2022
DNA extracted from human skeletal remains is often of poor quality and/or low quantity. However, extracted DNA is often vital to determining the identity of an individual, par...
This Week in Forensic Science
Jan 07 2022
No one has hours to scour the papers to keep up with the latest news, so we’ve curated the top news stories in the field of Forensic Science for this week. Here’s...
Meet ISHI Exhibitors: Leeds Forensic Systems
Jan 04 2022
Travis talks with Logan and Neal from Leeds Forensic Systems to discuss why they’ve come back to ISHI for the past 12 years. They also discuss the forensic imaging equip...
Women Advancing Forensics: Nidhi Sheth
Jan 04 2022
Meet some of the women who are propelling the field of forensic science forward. In this interview, we meet Nidhi Sheth, a PhD student at Rutgers University. At a young...