The Forensic Services Division of the Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff was awarded $376,101 in grant funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction Program.
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Traditional methods of DNA interpretation are limited, and do not use all the data. Imagine a medical world without doctors, where technicians take superb X-ray images, but there are no radiologists to read them.
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DNA Protected uses a DNA marker system that has been developed for forensic analysis to help investigate criminal cases involving the theft of dogs.
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Mexican authorities said last week they have fully confirmed the match between a bone fragment and a student missing since 2014.
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By studying DNA from the teeth of individuals who died at this time, researchers from the After the Plague project, have identified the presence of Yersinia Pestis, the pathogen that causes plague.
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This month, INTERPOL debuted I-Familia, the first global database designed to use DNA of relatives to identify missing persons or unidentified human remains around the world. The move is significant at the international level.
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The NIST review states that currently “there is not enough publicly available data to enable an external and independent assessment of the degree of reliability of DNA mixture interpretation practices, including the use of probabilistic genotyping software (PGS) systems.”
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For years, Santos has led the effort to expand the DNA lab within Philippines National Police and establish a national DNA database. Serving as a Hit of the Year judge in 2017, Santos says the cases she reviewed are still an inspiration to her.
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An interdisciplinary team of scientists, physicians and human rights advocates propose a DNA-led framework for safely and ethically reunifying the more than 70,000 families separated at the U.S. border as a result of the now-repealed Trump Administration’s Zero Tolerance policy.
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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.
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