While it currently takes the office 8 months to more than a year to identify a decedent via DNA, the new system will produce DNA identification results in under two hours.
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Authorities say they have solved the 50-year-old killing of an Iowa teen but not before the suspect died of old age.
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Investigators from the Atlanta Police Department traveled to a private lab in Salt Lake City to physically hand over DNA evidence associated with a terrifying 2-year murder spree that resulted in the death of at least 28 people, most of them children.
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The state of decomposition made it difficult to confirm the man's physical attributes, but pathologists were able to determine that the man was likely an adult male between the ages of 25 and 55, who stood at around 5’10 feet tall.
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More than 40 years after its invention, Sanger sequencing remains the gold standard for DNA sequencing.
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This accreditation follows Cellmark’s extensive technology validation and consultation with the UK’s Forensic Science Regulator, the Forensic Information Database Service.
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A man’s claim to be the great-grandson of legendary Native American leader Sitting Bull has been confirmed using DNA extracted from Sitting Bull’s scalp lock.
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The school founded by evangelist Jerry Falwell ignored reports of rape and threatened to punish accusers for breaking its moral code, say former students. An official who says he was fired for raising concerns calls it a “conspiracy of silence.”
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A man has been charged following the re-investigation of an alleged kidnapping and sexual assault of a young woman in Sydney’s south-west in the mid-1990s.
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On May7, 2020, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office was contacted by a private forester representative who advised one of his employees had located what was believed to be human remains.
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