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Tara Luther
The Missing Piece Episode 4: Shawna Beth Garber (Grace Doe)
Aug 25 2021
In December 1990, a couple walking on a rural road in Southwest Missouri discovered the decomposed remains of a young woman. She had been hog-tied and d...
Previewing the Posters of Our ISHI Student Ambassadors: Haley Fallang
Aug 23 2021
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
Aug 20 2021
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...
Under the Microscope – Laurence Devesse
Aug 19 2021
The ability to estimate the geographic ancestry of a donor from a forensic sample can be of vital importance for so called “no-suspect, no-hit” cases. It is a tool that ca...
Under the Microscope – Dane Plaza
Aug 18 2021
Rapid DNA technology can provide investigators with real-time investigative information, enhance border security and public safety, aid in prevention and detection of human tr...
Previewing the Posters of Our ISHI Student Ambassadors: Nidhi Sheth
Aug 17 2021
Interpreting mixture samples from a bulk pipeline is arduous since the signal is a cacophony of low-fidelity fluorescence from noise, artifact and incomplete allele signal fro...
This Week in Forensic Science
Aug 13 2021
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...
Under the Microscope – Curt Hewitt
Aug 11 2021
For the past three years, Signature Science has been working on the IARPA PROTEOS program to demonstrate that protein sequencing can successfully be used for human forensic id...
Under the Microscope – Allison Sherier
Aug 10 2021
Over the past decade microbial forensics has shifted from solely biosecurity applications to include human identification (HID). Studies have shown that the human skin microbi...