On Tuesday, just days after the 20th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history, forensic scientists who worked and are still working on identifying victims of the 9/11 attacks came together at ISHI 32 in a special panel titled, “From the Ashes- Lesson Learned from 9/11.”
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Parabon NanoLabs unveils, for the first time, the predicted faces of three ancient mummies from an ancient Nile community in Egypt known as the Abusir el-Meleq
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The Kalamazoo Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) secured prison time against a habitual offender after he was sentenced in one of three cases currently pending as a result of successful evidence testing.
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DNA evidence collected from all three crimes pointed to one as yet unknown culprit. Also, fingerprints from the evidence collected at two crime scenes were a match. But the identity of the killer remained a mystery.
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The Second Humanitarian Project Plan (HPP 2) will involve the exhumation of human remains belonging to a number of individuals located within one grave known as C.1.10 at Darwin cemetery.
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A genetic ancestry test (GAT) can not only unearth deep family secrets, it also can change how people self-identify their race on surveys.
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The Department of Forensic Science reached its 15,000th DNA Data Bank “hit.” This is a significant milestone in the history of the Data Bank, which was created in Virginia in 1989.
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There is no known research that has attempted to use Raman spectroscopy as a pre-screening tool for assessing DNA quantity and quality for forensic casework applications.
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In a new proof-of-concept study, researchers have validated a reverse complement PCR (RC-PCR) short amplicon 85 SNP-plex panel that can be used to improve library preparation for DNA analysis of difficult samples.
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On Feb. 3, 1981, skeletal remains of a man wrapped in an electric blanket were discovered at a remote site. No identification was found with the remains, which investigators believed had been out in the elements for months.
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