As health officials scrutinize marijuana vaping, it’s increasingly on law enforcement’s radar, too. From New York City to Nebraska farm country to California, authorities have seized at least 510,000 marijuana vape cartridges and arrested more than 120 people in the past two years.
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Innovative Forensic DNA LLC has announced its launch as an investigative genetics genealogy firm directly serving the law enforcement community. Innovative Forensic DNA offers law enforcement agencies one-on-one, collaborative genetic genealogy services tailored to the unique needs of criminal investigators.
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In 1953, physicist John Archibald Wheeler found himself in the middle of an FBI investigation after losing six pages of a top-secret document on a train to Washington.
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Misuse, dependency, death—just a few consequences of the opioid epidemic the United States has been facing the past few years. Now, a researcher at West Virginia University is calling attention to one of the lesser known elements of the epidemic—child sex trafficking.
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Companies and consumers alike are increasingly turning to cloud infrastructures to store and protect their data. The cybersecurity risks associated with the technology are growing – and demand a more robust response from industry to confront them.
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Military Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examiners are physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and registered nurses who undergo specialized education and training in the provision of trauma-related healthcare as well as the performance of forensic medical examination
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Mary Bush pursued a career in forensic dentistry, during which she analyzed evidence from criminal cases across the country and became an expert on the admissibility of bite mark evidence in the U.S. court system. Now, the UB faculty member has traded fact for fiction, publishing her first novel, “A Simple Lie,” the beginning of her new crime series.
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From 2015 to 2017, the United States saw a rise in the rate of firearm deaths, according to a study led by University of Michigan researchers. In all, the U.S. saw a 14 percent rise in the rate of firearm deaths from 2015 through 2017, compared with the rate seen in the years 1999 through 2014.
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Scientists have developed an ultrasensitive detector based on black silicon. The device is able to detect trace amounts of nitroaromatic compounds and can be applied to identify the majority of explosives or highly toxic pollutants for medical and forensic evaluations.
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The Department of Defense implemented new policy in March 2019 to direct all service Drug Demand Reduction Program labs to test for fentanyl and norfentanyl. When trends start to be seen in society, the DoD looks at the potency and lethality of the drug, before being considered for additional testing on the panel.
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