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Long-Read Sequencing Technique As A Powerful Tool In Forensic Investigations
Jan 22 2020
In the past twenty years, the statistical data on murders in USA stated that males account for most of the violent crimes. The work of the forensic analyst is very hard when d...
Telling the Stories of the Unidentified
Jan 16 2020
According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), 600,000 individuals go missing in the United States each year. While many are quickly found, it is e...
A Passion to Succeed: Women in Forensic Science
Jan 14 2020
From the days when Watson and Crick leveraged Rosalind Franklin’s x-ray diffraction images of DNA to identify DNA’s double helix structure, the contributions of women in t...
This Week in Forensic Science
Jan 10 2020
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...
The Future of Forensic Science: An Interview with Athina Vidaki
Jan 09 2020
Athina Vidaki, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands discusses the newest technologies and techniques in forensic science. From sequencing...
Demonstration of a Mitochondrial DNA-Compatible Workflow for Genetically Variant Peptide Identification from Human Hair Samples
Jan 07 2020
Hair is an evidentiary sample that typically does not provide sufficient nuclear DNA for forensic analysis. Therefore, state-of-the-art forensic examination for hair samples i...
This Week in Forensic Science
Jan 03 2020
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...
Application of SNP Probe Capture Enrichment and Massively Parallel Sequencing in the Analysis of Degraded and Mixed Samples
Dec 31 2019
Samples that are highly degraded and mixed in nature are commonly found in mass disaster events, missing persons, and forensic casework and often pose issues with conventional...
Kennedy Assassination Bullets Preserved in Digital Form
Dec 26 2019
In the palm of his hand, Thomas Brian Renegar held two small metal objects that had changed the course of history. Twisted pieces of copper and lead, they were fragments of th...