September 4, 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.
Simone Yang’s data told her saliva samples were the weaker ones: lower sequencing quality, fewer usable reads than blood. Then the validation results came back, and saliva held the strongest,
196 member countries. One shared DNA infrastructure. Most working analysts have never touched it. INTERPOL runs two separate systems. One does what a national database already does: compares one profile
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.
Irina Badell Garcia knew her way around CODIS STRs and mitochondrial kinship testing before her PhD even started. Then her advisor, Dr. Aaron Shafer, asked her to learn something she’d
The people who help shape ISHI’s agenda have a front-row view of where forensic science is heading. So, what are they actually looking forward to? https://youtu.be/RQDgMbFY0Wk Three of the four
August tends to arrive in forensic science labs with a kind of dual energy, one foot still in summer’s casework, the other already leaning toward Providence. ISHI 37 is just
A state crime lab ran DNA from a gun and got an inconclusive result: multiple contributors, no clean match. Probabilistic genotyping software reran the same evidence and returned a likelihood
In September 2025, a New York court admitted DNA evidence built from SNP analysis, whole genome sequencing, and rootless hair samples in a criminal trial for the first time in