Building on funds invested in the Department from the California Legislature, the new process— based on validated methodology— uses state-of-the-art equipment to combine five drug analytical methods into one and dramatically reduces sample needs by as much as 97%.
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Thousands of human remains from Sept. 11 have yet to be identified because they’re too damaged and degraded to be analyzed by conventional methods.
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Researchers are working to develop a new branch of cyber forensics called AI Psychiatry that seeks to keep data more secure in a constantly evolving technological landscape.
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A team of researchers from Kentucky is shedding light on increased drug consumption in the early days of the pandemic through wastewater epidemiology analysis.
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The Champlain Towers South investigation will be the fifth investigation NIST has conducted using authorities granted by the 2002 National Construction Safety Team (NCST) Act.
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Police discovered there were several pieces of evidence in the case file that could likely be tested using modern DNA technology.
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DNA evidence helped investigators match the 1985 kidnapping, sexual assault and death of a 17-year-old Florida girl to a man already serving two life sentences in Michigan on sexual assault charges.
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The oldest genome of a modern human from the Wallacea region– the islands between western Indonesia and Papua New Guinea– indicates a previously undescribed ancient human relationship.
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The new method is based on the development of aptamers, single-stranded DNA molecules capable of selectively binding to a given target.
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The DNA project identified 635 registered sex offenders who illegally failed to provide DNA samples after their criminal conviction. Ferguson’s office is working with local law enforcement to collect DNA samples from these offenders.
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