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Understanding SNPs: How to use SNPs to enhance traditional forensic analyses
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Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) offer unique advantages for human identification applications supplementing STR markers to enhance traditional analyses or enabling new and expanded application capabilities. In this Verogen webinar, the talk focuses on SNPs applied to current analyses to ... read more
Forensic Nurse Reflects on the Promise of Touch DNA
Valentine became interested in the potential of touch DNA after a 2011 breakthrough case in Utah, when a young woman was violently groped, but the assailant left no bodily fluids that could be tested. read more
Vancouver Police Turn to Genealogy to Solve One of City’s Oldest Murders
The case—known in popular culture as Babes in the Woods—dates back to 1953, when skeletal remains of two boys were discovered by a groundskeeper near Beaver Lake, in Stanley Park. read more
Forensic Archaeologists Begin to Recover Spanish Civil War Missing
Several bodies with gunshot wounds to the head, personal effects and parts of clothing have already been recovered and in total the team are searching for 26 people in this excavation. read more
How Automated Sample Preparation Has Revolutionized Forensic DNA Analysis
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Where it was previously poorly understood, DNA analysis is now considered so commonplace that direct-toconsumer DNA tests can be purchased in many drugstores. Forensic DNA evidence is considered the gold standard in criminal investigations and many refer to the “CSI-effect” to reflect the current ... read more
Get The Most Out of Every Sample With Ultra-Efficient Nucleic Acid Extraction
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From sample to insight, the EZ2® Connect Fx allows for a seamless forensic laboratory experience. Get high-quality nucleic acids in just three easy steps. read more
DNA Matters: How to Use the Likelihood Ratio
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Forensic scientists can determine a strength of match. This match statistic summarizes in a single number just how strongly a person is connected to DNA evidence. Many courts require such a statistic before accepting DNA evidence. read more
This is How You Get Your Power Back: Women Get Second Chance at Justice After Rape Kits Destroyed
Neuman was a teenager when she was raped by a stranger in Baltimore in 1983. Her rapist had never been caught, but she had never let go. She called Baltimore police over the years until she found two determined city detectives to investigate her case in 2002. read more
Take vs Touch: 3 Mass Spec Imaging Techniques Detect Cocaine Differences in Fingerprints
Expanding on years of mass spectrometry-based fingerprint detection technology and research, Melanie Bailey and her team have now proven a single fingerprint left at a crime scene can be used to determine whether someone has ingested cocaine or simply touched it. read more
Who is this Monster? For 20 Years, Officer Leads SVU by Testing Old Rape Kits
Trips down to the department’s evidence room only deepened Brady’s frustration. Most of the evidence in cold rape cases had disappeared, everything from blood samples to basic investigative records. read more
NC State Anthropology Lab to Subcontract with NamUs
NC State was recently announced as one of two forensic anthropology subcontractors with RTI International on the management of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs). read more
Police Release Reconstruction of Skull Located in 2011
On June 5, 2011, patrol officers from the New Castle County Division of Police were dispatched to the wooded area of Sellers Park off Edgemoor Road for the discovery of human bones. read more
$1 M Grant From DOJ Enables Kentucky to Target Child Trafficking
A $1 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Justice will help the state address key findings of the University of Louisville Human Trafficking Research Initiative’s Project PIVOT, a two-year research project. read more
Infographic: Beyond Homicides: 3 Other Applications for Forensic DNA
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Human identification is all about getting answers. Whether it's natural disaster, accidents, war, political strife, or any other conflict, friends, loved ones and ancestors live in uncertainty. These people deserve answers— and so do the missing. Explore this infographic to learn how forensic DNA ... read more
'You Save as Long as You Have To': Pathologist Created First DNA Database of Rapists 50 Years Ago
Distressed by authorities’ poor treatment of rape victims and destruction of evidence, one doctor became a DNA archivist long before we had the technology to test it. For potentially hundreds of survivors, his faith in science is paying off. read more