September 25, 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.
Mia Gale was taught that hair shafts don’t contain nuclear DNA worth pursuing. Her research produced full STR profiles from them anyway. Rootless hairs are common at crime scenes, but
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” It’s commonly credited to Carl Sagan, though nobody’s entirely sure that’s right, and forensic DNA testimony has mostly treated it as an
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.
Daniel Arend’s biting samples told a clear story: even 16 hours after contact, and after volunteers had gone back to their normal day, DNA from the person of interest was
Julie Sikorsky didn’t know the technical leader role existed until the day she was hired into a laboratory that had one waiting for her. She’s led a forensic biology unit
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.
Written by: Mark Desire, Assistant Director of Forensic Biology, City of New York Office of Chief Medical Examiner Twenty-five years have passed since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,
Elizabeth Kowalczyk expected that cutting the sequencing depth would cost her the data. It didn’t. Even at DNA inputs as low as 0.1 nanograms, her low-pass sequencing runs produced genotype