Category
Forensic
Staging a Canine Crime Scene to Teach Forensics Concepts
Feb 15 2016
Sara Katsanis explains how she and her colleagues developed a mock wrongful convictions canine crime scene to teach forensics concepts to a middle school student. ...
Autosomal and Y-STR Analysis of Degraded DNA from the 120-Year-Old Skeletal Remains of Ezekiel Harper
Feb 08 2016
I have been involved in skeletal remains work for many years. I am fascinated with bones and their ability to survive for such long periods of time in harsh conditions, and I ...
Database Searching – Taking Mixtures Further than Ever Before
Feb 01 2016
At The Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) we receive approximately 2600 volume crime samples per year and conservatively it is estimated that approximately ...
Two Novel Multiplex INDEL Assays for use with Degraded DNA Samples
Jan 25 2016
Most commercially available STR kits yield amplified fragments with lengths between 100 and 500 base pairs. However degraded biological samples typically are fragmented into p...
Aiding the Innocent: How Witness to Innocence Supports the Wrongly Convicted
Jan 18 2016
ISHI 26 featured Kirk Bloodsworth, the first person sentenced to death who was exonerated through DNA evidence. Twenty of the 336 people who have been exonerated through post-...
Identifying 140 Year-Old Remains Using Massively Parallel DNA Sequencing
Jan 11 2016
The goal of forensic DNA testing of human skeletal remains is identification of the unknown individual. A variety of genetic markers can be used to achieve identification, inc...
An Evaluation of a New Rapid DNA Platform for Field Forward Applications
Jan 04 2016
Between the years of 2005 and 2010, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) reserved $58 million to assist in the reduction of the arrestee and offender DNA backlog. Conside...
Where do You see the Field of Forensics Heading in the Next 10 Years?
Dec 14 2015
We asked our ISHI 26 speakers what technologies they are most excited about or where they saw the field heading in the next 10 years. Here’s what they had to say! &nb...
Improving Results from ‘Touch’ DNA Samples
Dec 07 2015
As DNA technology has become more sensitive over the years, there has been an increase in the number of samples that laboratories are receiving with requests for DNA analysis ...