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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The Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Team is working directly with criminalists from the California Department of Justice and two expert forensic anthropologists to respectfully catalog and analyze the remains to determine their viability for DNA analysis.
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The Salt Lake City Police Department announced the closure of, a missing persons cold case after DNA testing confirmed the human remains located in Millard County, Utah belonged to Sandra Matott—who disappeared in July of 1979.
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Male DNA that corresponds with partial profiles found in three unsolved sexual assault cases was found in the car of a missing Colorado woman whose husband is charged with killing her.
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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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Two years after it was first detected in Europe in January 2019, researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have identified three biomarkers for APP-BUTINACA (also called APP-BINACA), an emerging synthetic cannabinoid.
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