Richard (Ed) Green, professor of biomolecular engineering, has been selected to serve as the next director of the California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) at UC Santa Cruz.
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After almost a year, IGGAB has published a draft of the proposed standards for investigative genetic genealogy (IGG). The draft is available for public comment until May 30, 2023.
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In December 1988, 19-year-old Cathy Sue Swartz was murdered in the apartment that she shared with her fiancé and daughter. The daughter, who was 9-months-old, was found unharmed in her crib.
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Katz’s office and the NYPD last year requested that the New York City Medical Examiner’s office test for DNA under the victim’s preserved fingernail clippings.
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The team will take a data-driven approach, unburdened by the assumptions in historical schemes, to produce a bloodstain pattern analysis tool.
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A group of graduate students were surprised to discover security vulnerabilities in a location-sharing mobile application designed to promote family safety.
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“Together, these documents suggest a different account of the discovery of the double helix. Franklin did not fail to grasp the structure of DNA. She was an equal contributor to solving it.”
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Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan has announced that internationally recognized forensic science specialist Claire Glynn will join the office as a consultant.
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Virginia Department of Health’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner released facial approximations of eight skeletal remains found in the Central Virginia region between 1988 and 2020.
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Local, state, federal and international law enforcement agencies that reconstruct and analyze digital evidence to solve crimes can use a high-tech toolkit from Purdue University that has been upgraded to be easier and more cost-effective to set up and maintain.
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