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Tara Luther
mtDNA Population Databases for Forensic Purposes: An Overview of the Situation in South America
Nov 05 2020
Mapping and understanding the high ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity of South American populations has been the main focus of various studies in different fields of sc...
Investigative Genetic Genealogy and Criminalistics – What is the Future?
Nov 02 2020
Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) has been amazing in solving both cold and recent cases and for exonerating the innocent. Each day, another once-thought-to-be-intractable...
This Week in Forensic Science
Oct 30 2020
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...
Determining the Size of the D18S51 Long Alleles Observed in the Costa Rican Population using Commercial Genotyping Kits with STRs
Oct 29 2020
As previously reported, the Costa Rican population exhibits long alleles (not included in commercial allelic ladders) at the STR D18S51 locus, ranging from 28 to 40 Repetiti...
Loveless Lost: The Case of the Oldest Doe Identified Using Forensic Genetic Genealogy
Oct 27 2020
In the summer of 1979, a family was searching for artifacts in Buffalo Cave, a dark lava tube outside of the small and remote town of Dubois, Idaho. Approximately 200 feet fro...
This Week in Forensic Science
Oct 23 2020
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...
Root-Cause Analysis: An Essential Step in the Management of Nonconformity
Oct 21 2020
Considering that an Integrated Quality Management System is prone to continuous improvement, the occurrence of non-conformities within processes evaluated by external or inter...
Rapid DNA Identification: Conception Boat Fire
Oct 19 2020
In the early morning hours of September 2, 2019, a fire started in Santa Barbara County, just off the coast of Santa Cruz Island, on the Conception Dive boat with 39 passenger...
This Week in Forensic Science
Oct 16 2020
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...