May 1, 2026
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.
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.
Not hypothetical challenges. Not field-wide abstractions. The actual, specific problems that four members of the ISHI Advisory Committee are working on right now — in their labs, with their teams,
Forensic DNA workflows are built around the STR profile. It’s also where analysts first learn a sample has a problem — a mixture they didn’t anticipate, a template too low
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.
Most forensic labs first encounter FIGG as an investigative possibility—a technology that solved a high-profile cold case, a grant that suddenly makes it fundable, an investigator asking whether a decades-old
In forensic anthropology, age estimation from adult skeletal remains is one of the field’s harder problems. Classical methods lose accuracy as people get older, and biological fluids — the tissue
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.
Burnout in forensic labs is a leadership problem — but not always for the reason leaders assume. The instinct is to look at the caseload. The backlog. The mandatory overtime
The Wednesday keynote at ISHI 37 examines the Robert Eugene Brashers case — a multi-decade, multi-jurisdictional investigation resolved through the intersection of STR analysis, forensic genetic genealogy, and interagency collaboration