Articles Published by NIJ

NIJ-funded scientists from West Virginia University develop quick, easy, and accurate drug tests.

NIJ-funded researchers address the need for simple, cost-effective ways to differentiate hemp from marijuana.

NIJ-funded researchers develop a novel blood protein modification assay to detect drug exposure long after the limits of traditional urine or blood tests.

NIJ-funded research reveals how long DNA is detectable on various surfaces under different conditions.

Determining sex, age, and other forensic information from the skeleton of a young person has stymied investigators for decades.

NIJ-funded researchers developed a novel metric to assess probability that an unknown sample of a drug matches a library sample, with profound implications for standardization of mass spectrometry results.

Development of blowflies on a body is a standard forensic measure of time since death, but temperature variations can alter that development and mislead investigators.

A new postmortem image database will be a resource for research in forensic anthropology, pathology, and radiology.

Researchers created an open-access computer program for estimating the age of skeletal remains that outperforms current methods. The algorithm is based on 20 age-related skeletal changes identified by experienced forensic anthropologists.