Forensic sciences
DNA Commission of the International Society for Forensic Genetics: Recommendations on the validation of software programs performing biostatistical calculations for forensic genetics applications
Date Published
January 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Acoustic trapping of sperm cells from mock sexual assault samples
Date Published
2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Real Time Electronic Feedback for Improved Acoustic Trapping of Micron-Scale Particles
Date Published
2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Field Sobriety Tests and THC Levels Unreliable Indicators of Marijuana Intoxication
Date Published
April 5, 2021
Researchers investigated how marijuana affects skills required for safe driving and found that biofluid levels of THC did not correlate with field sobriety test performance or marijuana intoxication, regardless of how the cannabis was ingested.
The Impact of NIJ Forensic Science Research and Development
Date Published
April 2021
Agencies
NIJ
Evaluation of an Emerging Automated Searching Technology to Improve the Efficiency and Reliability of Latent Print Comparisons
Date Published
June 2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
National Center on Forensics, Fiscal Year 2021
Closing Date
Fast and Portable Drug Testing: Dual-Method Prototype Shows Promise for Court-Admissible Drug Testing
Date Published
March 12, 2021
Researchers integrate two independent, validated drug-testing techniques – mass spectrometry and Raman spectroscopy – onto a single platform prototype for fast and accurate analysis of seized substances.
New Method for Measuring Human Decomposition Could Significantly Impact Medicolegal Death Investigations
Date Published
April 2021
Agencies
NIJ
Field Sobriety Tests and THC Levels Unreliable Indicators of Marijuana Intoxication
Date Published
April 2021
Agencies
NIJ
Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
2016-MU-BX-K007
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2021
$3,341,165
Fast and Portable Drug Testing: Dual-Method Prototype Shows Promise for Court-Admissible Drug Testing
Date Published
March 2021
Agencies
NIJ
Low-Cost Isothermal Amplification Microdevice for Rapid Colorimetric Detection Applied to Body Fluid Identification and Y-screening
Date Published
2020
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Human Organ Tissue Identification by Targeted RNA Deep Sequencing to Aid in the Investigation of Shooting and Other Traumatic Bodily Injury Incidents
Date Published
January 2020
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored