Authorities say DNA evidence has proven that a man who died in prison several years ago was responsible for the 1984 murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body wasn’t found for more than a decade after she disappeared from her family home in New Jersey.
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An international research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has for the first time successfully isolated ancient human DNA from a Paleolithic artifact: a pierced deer tooth.
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Richard (Ed) Green, professor of biomolecular engineering, has been selected to serve as the next director of the California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) at UC Santa Cruz.
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Katz’s office and the NYPD last year requested that the New York City Medical Examiner’s office test for DNA under the victim’s preserved fingernail clippings.
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“Together, these documents suggest a different account of the discovery of the double helix. Franklin did not fail to grasp the structure of DNA. She was an equal contributor to solving it.”
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The Odessa Police Department and the Texas Rangers have made a breakthrough in the 1984 Missing Person Case involving Maria Mendez.
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Despite the success of the technique, a new report says NGS is still in an early adoption phase—and adoption has been slow.
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The State Office of Victim Services established the facility to comply with the state law that requires unreported kits to be stored for 20 years from the date of collection.
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UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central will open a first-of-its-kind medical unit dedicated solely to providing forensic nursing care to patients who have experienced sexual assault, physical assault or other types of abuse.
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In 2020, evidence in the case was subjected to Advanced DNA testing under DPS’ Sexual Assault Kit Initiative program.
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