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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 ...
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...