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10 Validation Tips You Need to Know
Apr 04 2016
Validations can be intimidating for any lab, so to make your life easier, we asked Promega’s Technical Support and Validation Teams to share tips on how to make the proc...
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...
Massively Parallel Sequencing for Forensic DNA Analysis
Mar 21 2016
Massively parallel sequencing (MPS), also called next generation sequencing (NGS), has the potential to alleviate some of the biggest challenges facing forensic laboratories, ...
Familial Searching – An Interview with Rock Harmon
Mar 14 2016
Familial Searching has been getting a lot of attention lately, and for good reason. In the fight against crime, it is essential that law enforcement is able to use all of the ...
From Death Row to Exoneration Thanks to DNA
Mar 07 2016
Kirk Bloodsworth, the first person in the United States to be freed by post-conviction DNA testing, recounts his story of how he was convicted of a brutal murder, and subseque...
WVU Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Course
Feb 29 2016
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification course for forensic professionals is now available at West Virginia University to help understaffed crime laboratories reduce errors an...
ISHI 29 Brings Us Back to Phoenix, Arizona!
Feb 22 2016
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 ...
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 ...