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Under the Microscope – Tim Augsback
Sep 17 2018
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) confronted a state-wide Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) testing initiative to eliminate the backlog of untested kits. As part of this ...
Under the Microscope – Kate Stevenson
Sep 13 2018
SWGDAM outlines validation requirements for individual laboratories which include concordance, reproducibility, accuracy and precision, sensitivity and stochastic effects and...
Under the Microscope – Lynndsey Simon
Sep 06 2018
Current extraction methods employed by the Columbus Police Forensic Services Center use incubation times that can exceed two hours and require subsequent purification on robot...
Under the Microscope – Amelia Gamblin
Sep 04 2018
The true origin of contamination events can rarely, if ever, be truly determined as nucleated cells and DNA molecules, akin to bacteria cells and viruses are invisible to the ...
Under the Microscope – Greg Hampikian
Aug 29 2018
Since 2016, the authors have been funded by a DOJ Bloodsworth Grant to use probabilistic genotyping (TrueAllele) and other DNA analysis methods to help free the wrongfully con...
Under the Microscope – Julie Valentine
Aug 28 2018
A collaborative database was created in Utah to link data on sexual assault kits (SAKs) from evidence collection through submission to the state crime laboratory and DNA analy...
Under the Microscope – Amy Jeanguenat
Aug 23 2018
Bias used to be a topic that was avoided in forensic science; it was dismissed and no one want to be labeled as having it. However, the acknowledgement that as human beings ...
Under the Microscope – Sara Katsanis and Jen Wagner
Aug 15 2018
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 separate...
Under the Microscope – Sarah Dingle
Aug 08 2018
DNA analysis is a powerful tool for researchers, scientists and law enforcement. But in the everyday lives of people across the globe, affordable access to DNA testing has bro...