Michigan State University is leading the effort to create a computer program that produces a holistic biological profile of human remains and makes the investigative process clearer and more efficient.
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It is in this fertile environment that the forensic pathology fellow conducts a substantial number of medicolegal autopsies on routine and unusual cases from around the state and is given substantial control of cases at all levels, commensurate with their increasing ability.
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For forensic anthropologists, bone lesions caused by cancer pose unique challenges due to their unpredictable nature and diverse presentations.
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A new study has revealed that bodies recovered from a "war cemetery," previously attributed to the Roman Conquest of Britain at Maiden Castle Iron Age hillfort in Dorset, did not die in a single dramatic event.
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The discovery reveals that this population of hunter-gatherers left no genetic descendants in the groups that followed them, indicating a complete replacement by another migration from Central America.
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The City of Tulsa’s 1921 Graves Investigation has identified James Goings as the second “new” victim of the Tulsa Race Massacre through veterans’ records and family history.
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It is unknown when or how the man died, but there was no direct evidence of a traumatic injury, like a gunshot wound or blunt force trauma, and the man's cause and manner of death were ruled as undetermined.
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With support from a $2 million collaborative grant, researchers from UNT Health Fort Worth are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop new software to help forensic anthropologists accurately identify human remains.
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