Research and development
New Method for Measuring Human Decomposition Could Significantly Impact Medicolegal Death Investigations
Improving postmortem interval estimation with standardized and simplified protocols could significantly impact medicolegal death investigations by providing more accurate and reliable data for determining time since death.
Isolation of a Low Number of Sperm Cells from Female DNA in a Glass-PDMS-Glass Microchip via Bead-Assisted Acoustic Differential Extraction
SNPs and SNVs in forensic science
Spectrochemical mapping using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy as a more objective approach to shooting distance determination
The effect of wild card designations and rare alleles in forensic DNA database searches
Discriminant Analysis of Raman Spectra for Body Fluid Identification for Forensic Purposes
Multidimensional Raman Spectroscopic Signature of Sweat and its Potential Application to Forensic Body Fluid Identification
Liquid Fuel Spill Fire Dynamics
Search prefilters for library matching of infrared spectra in the PDQ database using the autocorrelation transformation
Exploring the DNA mixture deconvolution through simulation
Cancer-Associated Mutations but No Cancer: Insights into the Early Steps of Carcinogenesis and Implications for Early Cancer Detection
Investigation of Heteroplasmy in the Human Mitochondrial DNA Control Region: A Synthesis of Observations from More Than 5000 Global Population Samples
Model-free Estimation of Recent Genetic Relatedness
Real Time Electronic Feedback for Improved Acoustic Trapping of Micron-Scale Particles
Field Sobriety Tests and THC Levels Unreliable Indicators of Marijuana Intoxication
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.
Data-Informed Jails: Challenges and Opportunities
Evaluation of an Emerging Automated Searching Technology to Improve the Efficiency and Reliability of Latent Print Comparisons
Fast and Portable Drug Testing: Dual-Method Prototype Shows Promise for Court-Admissible Drug Testing
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.