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Identifying Soldiers from 100 Year-Old Remains
Jul 19 2016
Jim Thomson of LGC describes how they worked to identify 250 skeletal remains of soldiers who had fallen during the Battle of Fromelles in 1916. TR...
Generating a Suspect’s Mugshot from Solely DNA
Jun 06 2016
Ellen Greytak of Parabon Nanolabs shares how they can predict a person’s appearance, and how they’re using the technology to help solve crime. TRANSCR...
Identifying Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus
May 27 2016
Marie Allen of Uppsala University shares how her team identified the remains of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus through DNA analysis. TRANSCRIPT: My name i...
Identifying the Disappeared of Guatemala
May 18 2016
Fredy Peccerelli of the Forensic Anthropology Foundation shares how he became involved with identifying the Disappeared of Guatemala and the process of using DNA to empower th...
Phenotyping – What Can and Should We Predict?
May 11 2016
David Ballard of King’s College London describes what phenotyping can accurately predict, the ethical and legal issues surrounding the topic, and the role it should play in ...
Autosomal and Y-STR Analysis of Degraded DNA from 120-Year-Old Skeletal Remains
Apr 18 2016
Angie Ambers of the Institute of Applied Genetics (UNTHSC) describes how she processes skeletal remains to determine an individual’s identity, and how she identified a Confe...
Improving DNA Phenotyping for Forensics
Mar 28 2016
Krystal Breslin describes the work that she’s doing at IUPUI to discover which SNPs determine eye, skin, and hair color in the hopes of making mug shots available to the...
An Interview with Tim Palmbach
Nov 05 2015
Professor Tim Palmbach of The University of New Haven describes a project he started to combat human trafficking using DNA. TRANSCRIPT: My name’s Professor Tim...
An Interview with Susan Mustafa
Jun 08 2015
Susan Mustafa, true crime author, describes how DNA testing in Louisiana was impacted by serial killings and her process for writing. TRANSCRIPT: My name is Susan D Mus...