Annual rates of emergency department visits for cannabis-involved traffic injury increased by 475 percent over 13 years, according to a new study from The Ottawa Hospital.
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In January, the CFSRE will move into a new state of the art facility in suburban Philadelphia that will
accommodate the growing scope and scale of its mission to educate, train and conduct research.
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Scientists in Germany and Rwanda have genetically linked a roughly 120-year-old skull to a male living today. The deceased individual was a high-ranking advisor to Mangi Meli, the king of the Chagga people in the late-1800s.
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An arrest and charge has been filed in connection with the homicide of “Baby Mary,” ending a 4-decade-long cold case that started when a 1-day old infant was found dead in a park on Christmas Eve in 1984.
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Mack’s wrongful conviction is the longest to be overturned based on new DNA evidence known to the Innocence Project. The actual assailant identified by this search has since confessed to the crime.
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In a first for the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, which created a clay model of the John Doe, a series of photo-realistic digital images also were generated in hopes of increasing the chances that someone will come forward to assist in identification.
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Scientists gave an experimental insomnia treatment to rats experiencing oxycodone withdrawal. The researchers found that the animals were far less likely to seek out drugs again in the future—even after ending the treatment.
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That is what you call a very effective incentive—a blueprint the forensic industry can learn from and adopt, according to forensic expert and consultant Brian Gestring.
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It has been reported that 72% of jurors anticipate seeing DNA in a sexual assault trial and that juries are 33 times more likely to convict when presented with DNA evidence.
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Kenneth Level Thompson, a teenager whose skeletal remains were found in 1983, has been identified as a result of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Unidentified Human Remains DNA Initiative.
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