Through a combination of laboratory accountability measures, lab robotics, rapid DNA, lean six-sigma efficiencies and the hiring of additional forensic scientists, the Illinois State Police have achieved a 33% overall reduction in the Biology/DNA forensic backlog.
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Tulsa will resume test excavations of potential unmarked graves from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre after the effort was halted in March because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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More than 150 Minneapolis police officers are filing work-related disability claims after the death of George Floyd and ensuing unrest, with about three-quarters citing post-traumatic stress disorder as the reason for their planned departures.
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An algorithm developed by BU computer scientists defends original images by counterattacking attempts at deepfake manipulation, distorting the files so that they cannot be used nefariously.
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While previous studies have found that a history of adverse events and psychological trauma, including sexual trauma, are associated with self-reported asthma, links with other respiratory problems have not been examined.
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An expert panel of over 30 multidisciplinary contributors from across the country came together to publish “Unexplained Pediatric Deaths: Investigation, Certification and Family Needs.”
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The Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification was successfully awarded £100,000 by a charitable trust to update and replace the specialist equipment required to create facial reconstructions.
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Two men who spent decades in prison based in part on the erroneous testimony of world-famous forensic expert Henry Lee had all charges against them dismissed last week by a Connecticut Superior Court judge.
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The Kings County District Attorney’s Office released a landmark report examining how and why the Conviction Review Unit in Brooklyn, New York, agreed to exonerate 25 wrongly convicted people in a five-year period.
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At the behest of the U.S. government, German authorities have seized a computer server that hosted a huge cache of files from scores of U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement agencies obtained in a Houston data breach last month.
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