August 14, 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.
A member of the Forensic Leadership Alliance sent in a question many labs are quietly living with: how can labs strengthen mentorship and collaboration between agencies, students, and providers to
Autosomal STR interpretation moved to probabilistic genotyping years ago. It’s now the standard in most U.S. labs. Y-STR interpretation didn’t make the same jump. Most labs still rely on database
A SNP profile can upload cleanly to GEDmatch, clear every filter, and still be wrong. False-negative segments can knock a real relative off the match list entirely. False-positive segments can
In 2022, pieces of tissue started washing ashore along the Atlantic coast between Palm Beach and Broward Counties. STR and Y-STR testing confirmed the remains were human, and male. There
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.
Cold case DNA work doesn’t fail because analysts aren’t skilled. It stalls because evidence is old, degraded, or formatted in ways the standard operating procedure was never written to address.
Building software for probabilistic genotyping is technically demanding. Building it so it holds up in court systems across multiple countries is something different. That distinction drove much of how STRmix™
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.