Recently 3M, the only company that produces the main carrier solvent used for the detection of fingerprints on porous surfaces, has announced that it will stop manufacturing and phase out the solvent, known as HFE7100, by the end of 2025.
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Humans inherited genetic material from Neanderthals that affects the shape of our noses, finds a new study.
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The best way to get these numbers down is by taking these rapists off the streets. In order to do that, their DNA has to be linked to a rape kit. And in order to show that, rape kits need to be processed—quickly, not years after the crime.
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Significant advances in forensic technology have aided the Calgary Police Service’s cold case sexual violence investigators with making an arrest in three sexual assaults that occurred nearly 40 years ago.
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Authorities say DNA evidence has proven that a man who died in prison several years ago was responsible for the 1984 murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body wasn’t found for more than a decade after she disappeared from her family home in New Jersey.
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An international research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has for the first time successfully isolated ancient human DNA from a Paleolithic artifact: a pierced deer tooth.
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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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