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Tara Luther
Within You Without You: The World of Microbial Forensics
Jan 30 2020
What’s in you and on you says a lot about you … and a lot about where you’ve been. Silvana Gaudieri, University of Western Australia FORENSICS AUSTRALIA – Thank...
Advancements in Technology Are Warming Up Cold Cases
Jan 28 2020
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ), in its guidelines National Best Practices for Implementing and Sustaining a Cold Case Investigation Unit, defines a cold case as a cas...
Long-Read Sequencing Technique As A Powerful Tool In Forensic Investigations
Jan 22 2020
In the past twenty years, the statistical data on murders in USA stated that males account for most of the violent crimes. The work of the forensic analyst is very hard when d...
Pop Quiz: What Scientific Job is Right for You?
Jan 21 2020
I used to love taking magazine quizzes to learn more about myself. I thought it would be fun to create a quiz to help you find out what scientific career path may be the best&...
Telling the Stories of the Unidentified
Jan 16 2020
According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), 600,000 individuals go missing in the United States each year. While many are quickly found, it is e...
A Passion to Succeed: Women in Forensic Science
Jan 14 2020
From the days when Watson and Crick leveraged Rosalind Franklin’s x-ray diffraction images of DNA to identify DNA’s double helix structure, the contributions of women in t...
This Week in Forensic Science
Jan 10 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...
The Future of Forensic Science: An Interview with Athina Vidaki
Jan 09 2020
Athina Vidaki, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands discusses the newest technologies and techniques in forensic science. From sequencing...
Demonstration of a Mitochondrial DNA-Compatible Workflow for Genetically Variant Peptide Identification from Human Hair Samples
Jan 07 2020
Hair is an evidentiary sample that typically does not provide sufficient nuclear DNA for forensic analysis. Therefore, state-of-the-art forensic examination for hair samples i...