The new lab will provide employment opportunities in rural Utah. Additionally, it will expand and enhance the forensic services provided not only regionally, but throughout the statewide system.
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The ForenSeq MainstAY Workflow kit targets the core autosomal and Y-STR loci accepted by global databases, minimizing the need to validate additional markers.
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Computer and engineering expert Zhanpeng Jin has found a way to track the origin of 3D-printed items that is as unique—and accurate—as the human fingerprint.
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Technology has finally been able to extract a more extensive DNA profile for this victim. With this testing, we have finally learned that our victim in this case is 75% Sub-Saharan African and 7% North Atlantic.
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University at Buffalo forensic dentist Mary Bush has received the 2021 Reidar F. Sognnaes Award of Excellence in Forensic Odontology from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS). She is the first woman to receive the honor.
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“We kind of blend in certain aspects throughout their entire previous three and a half years and prep them for what's coming,” Adamowicz said. “We’ve made the class mimic the kind of training they’ll experience as a forensic analyst, when they join a lab.”
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The team’s findings could have implications for criminology in general, but also for law enforcement practices today.
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The DNA on the purple gloves came from the victim, her boyfriend and her rapist. The genotypes of all three people were present on each purple glove. But forensic DNA science would be needed to reveal those identities.
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An alleged serial sex assailant was arrested this morning as a result of a cross match DNA “hit” on a member of the suspect’s family. The assailant is suspected of multiple sexual assaults that occurred between 2014 and 2019.
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Bethany Krebs has conducted experiments showing abrasive blasting of a specialized powder over a surface is more effective at revealing fingerprints than the conventional dusting method.
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