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What’s Possible with Rapid DNA Technology?

August 2022

Series

Justice Today Podcast

NIJ scientist Tracey Johnson joins science writer Sarah Michaud in this episode. They discuss Rapid DNA technology, and Tracey explains the complexities of this technology – its pitfalls and its possibilities.

Reading and Resources from NIJ:

Best Practices for DNA Laboratory Efficiency

Evaluation of a Rapid Processing Protocol for Sexual Assault Samples using Rapid DNA Instrumentation: Final Report

Date Published

August 2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Implementation Strategies: Next Generation Sequencing for DNA Analysis

Date Published

September 2021

Publication Type

Standard

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

NIJ and FBI Laboratory Partnership to Address Untested Sexual Assault Kits

2013-MUR-6019

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$1,000,000

NIJ and FBI Laboratory Partnership to Address Untested Sexual Assault Kits

2013-MUR-6019

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$4,874,000

Should Rape Kit Testing Be Prioritized by Victim-Offender Relationship? Empirical Comparison of Forensic Testing Outcomes for Stranger and Non-stranger Sexual Assaults

Date Published

May 2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

NIJ's Forensic Technologies Center of Excellence Offers Free Lab Audits

Date Published

October 2010

Publication Type

Issue Overview

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Population Data on the Expanded CODIS Core STR Loci for Eleven Populations of Significance for Forensic DNA Analyses in the United States

Date Published

November 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Expert Panel Issues New Best Practices Guide for Cold Case Investigations

Probabilistic Genotyping of Evidentiary DNA Typing Results - Module 8: Summation and Special Topics

Event Dates

July 17, 2019, 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Searching for the Missing in a City of Millions

Date Published

May 2019

Series

NIJ Journal

Publication Type

Technical Assistance, Program/Project Description, Issue Overview, Historical Overview

Agencies

NIJ

The NIJ-FBI Sexual Assault Kit Partnership — A Research Initiative for Unsubmitted Sexual Assault Kits

Date Published

January 1, 2016

Searching for the Missing in a City of Millions

Michigan State Police DNA Arrestee Collection Project

2015-DN-BX-K075

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$338,134

Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing: Identifying the Missing of Minnesota

2015-DN-BX-K039

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$133,434

Tennessee's FFY 2015 DBRG Program

2015-DN-BX-0116

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$2,162,375

FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Grant

2015-DN-BX-0071

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$150,000

FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program

2015-DN-BX-0079

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$2,509,525

FY2015 Cuyahoga County Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Project

2015-DN-BX-0103

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$307,048

FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - City of Mesa Forensic Services

2015-DN-BX-0036

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$133,782

Sexual Assault Kits - Using Science to Find Solutions

NIJ and NetBio-Advancing Rapid DNA Analysis: Bringing Automated Short Tandem Repeat Analysis to Forensics

Date Published

2015

Publication Type

Report (Technical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing

Closing Date

April 28, 2015

The goal of the “Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing” solicitation is threefold:

1. Assist eligible entities in performing DNA analysis on unidentified human remains and/or reference samples to support the efforts of States and units of local government to identify missing persons.
2. Enter the resulting DNA profiles into the FBI’s National DNA Index System using the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) version 7.0...

Rapid DNA, Course 3

Event Dates

December 9, 2014, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Open

Series

ASCLD Webinar Series