Category
Forensic
New Technology Lets Police Link DNA to Appearance and Ancestry – and It’s Coming to Australia
Mar 22 2022
Today’s blog is written by guest bloggers Caitlin Curtis, Research Fellow at The University of Queensland and James Hereward, Research Fellow at The University of Queensland...
The Missing Piece Episode 9: Clara Birdlong (Escatawpa Jane Doe)
Mar 22 2022
Though investigators suspected she was a victim of prolific serial killer, Samuel Little, they didn’t know her name for over 40 years. In Decemb...
This Week in Forensic Science
Mar 18 2022
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...
Massively Parallel Sequencing: Blazing New Trails in DNA Analysis
Mar 16 2022
Today’s blog is written by guest blogger Ken Doyle, Promega. Reposted from The ISHI Report with permission. Analysis of short tandem repeats (STRs) by capillary elect...
Technological Innovation Aids the Identification of Fallen Soldiers
Mar 15 2022
Today’s blog is written by guest blogger Ken Doyle, Promega. Reposted from The ISHI Report with permission. For just over five years, our family lived in a town 20 mi...
This Week in Forensic Science
Mar 11 2022
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 Science that is Helping Researchers Find the ‘Disappeared’ in Latin America
Mar 09 2022
Today’s blog is written by guest bloggers Jamie Pringle, Senior Lecturer in Geosciences, Keele University; Alejandra Baena, Researcher in Materials Physics, Geophysics and M...
Using Investigative Genetic Genealogy in Infanticide Cases
Mar 08 2022
Investigative genetic genealogy is becoming a popular topic in the forensic community for its use in solving previously “unsolvable” cold cases for law enforcement. The Un...
This Week in Forensic Science
Mar 04 2022
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...