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History of DNA
Apr 24 2018
Tomorrow is DNA Day! To celebrate, we’ve put together a history of DNA throughout the years. Keep reading to see how far the field has come! Written by: Tara Lut...
This Week in Forensic Science
Apr 20 2018
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...
Emoji in the Courtroom? How Technology is Creating New Challenges
Apr 16 2018
According to TechCrunch, the average person spent 300 minutes per day on their smartphone in 2017. Beyond that, over 1,661 billion text messages were sent in 2016 in the US al...
This Week in Forensic Science
Apr 13 2018
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...
How a Magazine Ad Helped Convict a Rapist
Apr 11 2018
In May of 1986, a woman in Orange County, Florida, was surprised by a man who entered her apartment and raped her at knifepoint. Despite the fact that she got a glimpse of his...
Matching a Suspect to a Crime Scene Using Molecular and Microbial Traces
Apr 09 2018
If we know that humans leave behind chemical and microbial traces in an environment, and we also know that these traces are unique to each human based on their lifestyle choic...
This Week in Forensic Science
Apr 06 2018
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...
Solving the Phoenix Canal Murders
Apr 05 2018
Colleen Fitzpatrick, founder of Identifinders International, describes how she used forensic genealogy to narrow a list of 2,000 suspects to just 5 and helped the Phoenix PD c...
The Forensic Scientist Who Knows How to Build Consensus
Apr 02 2018
Jeremy Triplett has had a busy three years. Since the inception of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) in 2014, Triplett has chaired the...