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Tara Luther
NIST Announces Plans for OSAC 2.0
Oct 02 2019
Today, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science announced new measures to make the ...
The 30th International Symposium on Human Identification: Elevating DNA Forensics
Oct 01 2019
In the fall of 1989, a small group of forensic scientists, law enforcement officials and representatives from Promega Corporation gathered in Madison, Wisconsin, for the very ...
Forensic Science Isn’t ‘Reliable’ or ‘Unreliable’ – It Depends on the Questions You’re Trying to Answer
Sep 19 2019
Claude Roux, University of Technology Sydney After recent criticism in the US and the UK, forensic science is now coming under attack in Australia. Several recent repor...
ISHI 30 – Know Before You Go
Sep 17 2019
You’ve waited all year, and the International Symposium on Human Identification is FINALLY almost here! Whether you’re hoping to learn about the newest technologie...
This Week in Forensic Science
Sep 13 2019
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...
Delving into the Diversity of The Plague of Justinian
Sep 10 2019
Human teeth play a key role in our understanding of how organisms evolve. Whenever a possible new member of the hominid family is uncovered, the shape and number of teeth are ...
This Week in Forensic Science
Sep 06 2019
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...
Genetic Genealogy – What Does the Future Hold?
Sep 05 2019
Across the United States, and increasingly internationally, detectives are closing cases that have long since grown cold using investigative genealogy. Killers and other preda...
Humanitarian Forensic Scientists Trace the Missing, Identify the Dead and Comfort the Living
Sep 03 2019
Ahmad Samarji, Phoenicia University and Dina Shokry, Cairo University The word “forensic” is typically associated with crimes and legal disputes. Forensic medicine,...