Improving Crime Lab Evidence Analysis and Efficiency in Utah in Support of DNA/Biology, Chemistry/Trace, Firearms and Impression Casework
Date Published
January 2005
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Trace DNA
Analysis of DNA From Post-blast Pipe Bomb Fragments for Identification and Determination of Ancestry
Date Published
January 2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Importance Sampling Allows H-d True Tests of Highly Discriminating DNA Profiles
Date Published
March 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
HIrisPlex-S system for eye, hair, and skin color prediction from DNA: Massively parallel sequencing solutions for two common forensically used platforms
Date Published
November 2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Internal Validation of STRmix (TM) for the Interpretation of Single Source and Mixed DNA Profiles
Date Published
July 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Automated Fraction Collection for the Forensic Analysis of Sexual Assault Evidence
2017-IJ-CX-0003
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$50,000
Improving Results from Touch DNA Evidence with Optimized Direct PCR Methods
2019-DU-BX-0009
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$453,146
Development of a 2bRAD-seq Paternity Testing Pipeline for Complex and Mixed DNA Samples
2019-R2-CX-0049
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$150,000
Probabilistic Genotyping for Microhaplotypes
2019-DU-BX-0023
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$192,764
Quantifying the Accuracy of Two Innovative Forensic Genetic Identification Techniques: Genealogical Searching and Low-Template DNA Mixture Analysis
2019-DU-BX-0028
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2019
$395,773
Towards Commercialization: Preliminary developmental validation of a high resolution melt curve mixture prediction assay and SVM tool
2019-DU-BX-0003
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2019
$399,699
Strengthening Our Nation's Crime Laboratories
April 2018
As technology improves, demand for analysis of DNA and other forensic evidence to help solve crimes grows. This video describes some of the challenges crime laboratories face in meeting this demand and how National Institute of Justice (NIJ) funding has strengthened crime labs and encouraged innovation in forensic techniques.
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Making Sense of the DNA Backlog - NIJ Conference Panel
June 2009
Panelists will present findings from two NIJ studies that examined the DNA backlog in law enforcement agencies and crime labs. Panelists will discuss research findings related to new and potential time- and cost-saving approaches.
Audio file
1 of 5: Making Sense of the DNA Backlog, Mark Nelson, National Institute of Justice
, 2 of 5: Making Sense of the DNA Backlog, Kevin Lothridge, Chief Executive Officer, National Forensic Science Technology Center
, 3 of 5: Making Sense of the DNA Backlog, Kevin J. Strom, Senior Research Scientist, Crime, Violence, and Justice Research Program, RTI International
, 4 of 5: Making Sense of the DNA Backlog, Greg Matheson, Director, Los Angeles Police Department Criminalistics Laboratory
, 5 of 5: Making Sense of the DNA Backlog, Question and Answer Session
Syracuse University Team Uses Input From the Field To Develop New Technology
Date Published
April 2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
PACE: Probabilistic Assessment for Contributor Estimation-A Machine Learning-based Assessment of the Number of Contributors in DNA Mixtures
Date Published
March 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Combined Genetic and Micro-Chemical Analysis of Household Dust as a Definitive Trace Identified of a Room and its Occupants
Date Published
March 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
An Optimized DNA Analysis Workflow for the Sampling, Extraction, and Concentration of DNA obtained From Archived Latent Fingerprints
Date Published
January 2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Evaluating 130 Microhaplotypes Across a Global Set of 83 Populations
Date Published
July 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Molecular Characterization of Trace Biological Evidence for the Optimized Recovery and Analysis of 'Touch DNA'
Date Published
September 2014
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Improved Tools and Interpretation Guidelines for Examining Limited Low Copy Number DNA Obtained From Degraded Single Source Samples: Bones, Teeth, and Hairs
Date Published
August 2012
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Four Model Variants Within a Continuous Forensic DNA Mixture Interpretation Framework: Effects on Evidential Inference and Reporting
Date Published
November 2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Inferring the Number of Contributors to Complex DNA Mixtures Using Three Methods: Exploring the Limits of Low-Template DNA Interpretation
Date Published
January 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Persistence of Touch DNA for Forensic Analysis
2018-DU-BX-0192
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$649,938