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Celebrate ISHI’s 30th Anniversary in Palm Springs!
2019 will mark the 30th anniversary of The International Symposium on Human Identification, and to celebrate, we’re going to a city where we’ve never been before – Palm ...
Clarifying Misconceptions and Acknowledging Advantages of Next-Generation Sequencing in Forensic DNA Casework
Honored to be a part of the Forensic DNA community for nearly a decade, I’ve witnessed what I would consider a rather slow evolution of technology. In recent years, I was ...
Every Cell Has A Story To Tell™
Crime scene investigation requires collection and analysis of biological evidence for DNA genotyping. Blood, sperm, and epithelial evidence left behind by perpetrators can hel...
A NEW ERA FOR CRIME SCENE SAMPLE COLLECTION DEVICES
As the field of forensic science continues to progress, an important part of this advancement still depends and should depend on sampling collection procedures, which are fund...
Discovering the Truth About the Dozier School for Boys
The Dozier School for Boys had cemeteries instead of playgrounds. Written by: Greg Emmerich, Promega Corporation The stories of abuse that took place at ...
Returning the Stolen
Argentina is probably not the first place that comes to mind when you think of dictatorships, yet the “Dirty War” of the late 1970s killed 10,000–30,000 citizens in an a...
ISHI 29 Brings Us Back to Phoenix, Arizona!
If you’re like us, you’re ready for the cold of winter to end, which has us thinking ahead to the 29th International Symposium on Human Identification, which will ...
The Importance of Leadership Training in the Forensic Field
Laboratory management is a responsibility for which many forensic professionals are not fully prepared. Management and leadership education that is targeted specifically to fo...
The Living Disappeared
Submitted by: Alexa Barrett Last summer, an unprecedented number of unaccompanied children were crossing the U.S./Mexican border. The number of children c...