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Advances in Touch DNA Forensics: Where Are We Now and What Does the Future Hold?

by Maria Rosales Gerpe, PhD

Touch DNA expert Adrian Linacre, PhD, professor of forensic science at Flinders University, on the progress and future of the touch DNA forensics field

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Probabilistic Genotyping in the Forensic Lab

by Michael Coble, PhD

Interpreting Forensic Evidence with Statistics

Interpreting Forensic Evidence with Statistics

by Michelle Dotzert, PhD

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New Simpler and Cost-Effective Forensics Test Helps Identify Touch DNA

by University of New Hampshire

Innovative method could have significant implications on forensic investigations

a hand holding a scoop of dirt with an overlaid circle depicting a phylogenetic grouping of microbes and a red-eyed fly on the right side of the image, representing an insect-borne suite of microbes that helps decompose flesh after death according to a rigid timetable

Advances in Forensic Science Improve Accuracy of ‘Time of Death’ Estimates

by Arizona State University

Researchers discover new "universal decomposers," a network of common microbes responsible for cadaver decomposition

the top half of an animal skull with some dirt covered patches, lying on top of grass and dead leaves

Groundbreaking Study on Decomposing Microbes Could Transform Forensic Science

by Colorado State University

Identification of the network of microbes responsible for animal decomposition will allow for more precise postmortems

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Police to Trial New Forensic Footwear Process

by Staffordshire University

Forensic experts are taking new steps to identify criminals caught on CCTV using the shoes they are wearing

Blood spatter on a white wall

Written in Blood

by American Institute of Physics

How bloodstain “tails” can point to significant, additional forensic details

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Cat-Ching Criminals with DNA from Pet Hairs

by University of Leicester

New method helps researchers link suspects to a crime scene via cat hair

Crime scene with numbered evidence markers and blood splatter

New Method May Accurately Identify Body Fluids at Crime Scenes

by Wiley

Method uses two different types of RNA to distinguish between five common body fluids

Bullet casings on the ground

Researchers Blow Whistle on Forensic Science Method

by Iowa State University

Researchers say inconclusive reports in forensic cartridge-case comparisons conceal exculpatory evidence

Human Child remains being excavated

Forensic Study Sheds Light on the Remains of Infants, Children

by North Carolina State University

Researchers used the remains of pigs to access how infant and juvenile bones decay over time

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Study Finds Mass School Shootings Are Not Caused by Mental Illness

by Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Data reveal psychosis and other serious psychiatric illness absent in the majority of perpetrators