Five months after former and present CSU investigators at the Houston Forensic Science Center wrote a scathing letter about director Jerry Pena’s “toxic leadership,” the center has announced a new director.
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The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office and the DNA Doe Project announce the identity of a woman whose body was discovered on May, 25, 1981, at a low water crossing near Dixon, MO. the victim of an apparent homicide.
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Because of clues developed with DNA technology, genetic genealogy tracing and old-fashioned detective work, the native Californian has a real name, and investigators are trying to jump-start their search for his killer.
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The Rutgers University–Camden graduate student was conducting research in her forensics lab, following the recipe for a florescent-based fingerprint powder, when she realized that she couldn’t get a vital component in time to complete the project.
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As the first system to guarantee the security of virtual machines in the cloud, SeKVM could transform how cloud services are designed, developed, deployed and trusted.
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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for safely and ethically reunifying the more than 70,000 families separated at the U.S. border as a result of the now-repealed Trump Administration’s Zero Tolerance policy.
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The forensic tools used in the hunt for evidence have improved over the decades as advanced microscopy, spectroscopy, genetic analysis, and rapid forensic database searches have become common.
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The Hanson case was considered high risk because after 50 years, the crime scene DNA was severely degraded and believed to be unusable.
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Students from the University of Winchester are working with a team of international experts to revisit historical unsolved crimes as part of a unique project investigating cold cases.
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In November 2001, Johnson County, Texas resident was picking up cans on the side of Briar Oaks Road, when he found the remains of an newborn infant, who was wrapped in a jacket.
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