The Impact of Positive Self-Talk: A Next-Level Story
Today’s blog is written by Malynn Utzinger, Director of Integrative Practices, and Tim Weitzel, ESI Architect at Promega. Reposted from the Promega Connections blog with permission. Last month in this series, we posed to you that the most important decision you’ll ever make is the one about how to respond to the circumstances of your […]
NIST Launches an Updated Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science
Today’s blog is written by guest blogger, Rich Press. Reposted from the NIST blog with permission. The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science has updated its structure and improved several processes. These changes will enable OSAC, which is administered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to more quickly make […]
This Week in Forensic Science
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 what you need to know to get out the door! Six Incredible Things We Learned about Bones from Forensic Anthropologist Prof […]
STRmix & CODIS: LAPD Software Solutions
With the increasing adoption of probabilistic genotyping software for forensic DNA mixture analysis, the need for methods to upload and perform comparisons for deconvolutions has risen. LAPD has developed internal solutions and methods to develop profiles suitable for CODIS upload from STRmix deconvolution results as well as software tools to aid analysts in comparing possible […]
Community Watch: How the Internet is Changing Crime-Solving
Every day, new technologies are helping to close cold cases and return names to unidentified remains, but these may not be the technologies that you would assume. Recently, investigators have begun looking outside of the lab for answers. All around the world, people have become fascinated with true crime stories. Shows like Dateline and […]
This Week in Forensic Science
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 what you need to know to get out the door! Using Phenotypic and Genotypic Data to Predict Eye Color (Forensic – […]
Ancient DNA is Revealing the Genetic Landscape of People Who First Settled East Asia
Today’s guest blog is written by Melinda A. Yang, Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Richmond. Reposted from The Conversation under a creative commons license with permission. Melinda A. Yang, University of Richmond The very first human beings originally emerged in Africa before spreading across Eurasia about 60,000 years ago. After that, the […]
Save the Date for ISHI 32
An infant kidnapped from a Chicago hospital. A man who became an “unidentified living person” the instant a DNA test disproved his past. An internationally known investigative genetic genealogist who helped solve the mystery of their true identities. This is the story genetic detective CeCe Moore, along with Paul Fronczak, abandoned as a toddler 55 […]
This Week in Forensic Science
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 what you need to know to get out the door! FBI Approves Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Rapid DNA Solution for National DNA […]
