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Forensic
This Week in Forensic Science
Jun 28 2019
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...
Privacy Concerns Don’t Stop People from Putting Their DNA on the Internet to Help Solve Crimes
Jun 25 2019
Sarah Esther Lageson, Rutgers University Americans are embracing the use of DNA databases to solve crimes. Over the past year DNA submitted to ancestry websites ...
This Week in Forensic Science
Jun 21 2019
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...
Reflections on Three Decades of Forensic Science: An Interview with Bill Linton
Jun 19 2019
DNA typing was in its infancy. Random Fragment Length Polymorphism represented the state of the art in forensic science and the world wide web was years in the future when the...
Why so Many Rape Investigations are Dropped Before a Suspect is Charged
Jun 17 2019
Ching-Yu Huang, Bournemouth University and Fay Sweeting, Bournemouth University Even after 15 years serving as a police officer, Fay still vividly remembers the ...
This Week in Forensic Science
Jun 14 2019
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...
Using DNA at the Border: Untangling Misconceptions
Jun 13 2019
As the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy unfolded in Spring-Summer 2018, so too did a barrage of stories around migrant children being separated...
This Week in Forensic Science
Jun 07 2019
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...
Painstaking Veterinary Forensics Work Helps Combat Animal Abuse
Jun 04 2019
Written by: Kendra Coulter, Brock University Many people have seen dramatizations of forensics on shows likes Bones and CSI. Forensics is the application of scientific ...