This Week in Forensic Science
No one has hours to scour the papers to keep up with the latest news, so we’ve curated the top news stories in the field of Forensic Science for this week. Here’s what you need to know to get out the door! Prosecutors Agree to New DNA Testing in ‘Serial’ Case (The New […]
Massively Parallel Sequencing: Blazing New Trails in DNA Analysis
Today’s blog is written by guest blogger Ken Doyle, Promega. Reposted from The ISHI Report with permission. Analysis of short tandem repeats (STRs) by capillary electrophoresis remains the most popular method for human identification in forensic laboratories. However, interest in massively parallel sequencing (MPS) is growing rapidly, as reflected in the increasing number of […]
Technological Innovation Aids the Identification of Fallen Soldiers
Today’s blog is written by guest blogger Ken Doyle, Promega. Reposted from The ISHI Report with permission. For just over five years, our family lived in a town 20 miles south of Dover, Delaware. There were no commercial airports in the state, and the only air traffic we saw were flights to and from […]
This Week in Forensic Science
No one has hours to scour the papers to keep up with the latest news, so we’ve curated the top news stories in the field of Forensic Science for this week. Here’s what you need to know to get out the door! Oak Ridge Police to Use DNA Testing to Identify Infant Found […]
The Science that is Helping Researchers Find the ‘Disappeared’ in Latin America
Today’s blog is written by guest bloggers Jamie Pringle, Senior Lecturer in Geosciences, Keele University; Alejandra Baena, Researcher in Materials Physics, Geophysics and Materials Science., Universidad Antonio Nariño; Carlos Martín Molina, Researcher Professor, Universidad Antonio Nariño; Kristopher Wisniewski, Lecturer in Forensic Science, Keele University, and Vivienne Heaton, Lecturer in Forensic Anthropology and Biology, Keele University. […]
Using Investigative Genetic Genealogy in Infanticide Cases
Investigative genetic genealogy is becoming a popular topic in the forensic community for its use in solving previously “unsolvable” cold cases for law enforcement. The United States, unfortunately, has very high rates of infanticides–or the murder of a child younger than four years of age. Because these children are so young and have likely […]
This Week in Forensic Science
No one has hours to scour the papers to keep up with the latest news, so we’ve curated the top news stories in the field of Forensic Science for this week. Here’s what you need to know to get out the door! Naming the Unknown: How Investigators Plan to Extract DNA from 34-Year-Old […]
I-Familia: Identifying Missing Persons Globally Through International DNA Kinship Matching
Today’s blog is written by guest bloggers, François-Xavier Laurent, PhD, DNA Database Manager, INTERPOL and Susan Hitchin, PhD, DNA Unit Coordinator, INTERPOL. Reposted from The ISHI Report with permission. The identification of human remains belonging to missing persons persists as a challenging process in forensic genetics. When unidentified human remains are discovered, […]
How do Police Forensic Scientists Investigate a Case? A Clandestine Gravesite Recovery Expert Explains
Today’s blog is written by guest blogger, Brendan Chapman, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Science, Murdoch University. Reposted from The Conversation with permission a Creative Commons license. Recent high-profile missing persons cases, including that of William Tyrrell – who went missing in Kendall, New South Wales, at the age of three in 2014 – […]
