Forensics News
May 21, 2024
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Mar. 26, 2024 Lewy body disease may be more common in middle-aged people than previously thought, according to a recent study. In the study, almost one in ten of over 50-year-olds were found to have tissue markers of Lewy body disease in the ...
Mar. 10, 2024 A blood test that can accurately detect when someone has not slept for 24 hours has been ...
Mar. 4, 2024 Accurate 'time of death' estimates are a mainstay of murder mysteries and forensic programs, but such calculations in the real world are often complex and imprecise. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have discovered a group of common ...
Nov. 21, 2023 Scientists demonstrate how bloodstains can yield valuable details by examining the protrusions that deviate from the boundaries of otherwise elliptical bloodstains. The researchers studied how these ...
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Mar. 14, 2024 Research has found a less expensive and easier to use test to learn more about forensic touch DNA. This research has important implications for forensic investigations and being able to identify DNA ...
Mar. 8, 2024 As more people seek to go where no man has gone before, researchers are exploring how forensic science can be adapted to extraterrestrial environments. A new study highlights the behavior of blood in ...
Oct. 30, 2023 Cat hair could be the purr-fect way to catch criminals, according to ...
Oct. 2, 2023 If forensic experts have access to a suspect's gun, they can compare the microscopic markings from discarded shell casings with those found at a crime scene. Finding and reporting a mismatch can help ...
Aug. 11, 2023 A multidisciplinary team -- engineers, soil scientists, and biologists -- digs in with them for a deeper look at what happens to the soil underneath a decomposing ...
July 6, 2023 Discoveries by forensic scientists about how gunshot residue behaves on skin, hair and fabric will allow crime scene investigators to catch up to the proliferation of new, eco-friendly types of ...
Apr. 3, 2023 It is possible to retrieve forensically relevant information from human DNA in household ...
Oct. 13, 2022 Watch any episode of 'CSI,' and a character will use forensic DNA profiling to identify a criminal. A new study suggests that these forensic profiles may indirectly reveal medical information -- ...
Aug. 23, 2022 A collection of photos of genetically unrelated lookalikes, along with DNA analysis, revealed that strong facial similarity is associated with shared genetic ...
July 29, 2022 Researchers have found the development of the frontal sinus was affected more by sexual dimorphism than the ancestry of the individual and that it ...
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Feb. 29, 2024 A technique originally devised to extract DNA from woolly mammoths and other ancient archaeological specimens can be used to potentially identify badly burned human remains, according to ...
Nov. 30, 2022 Scientists have successfully identified the urinary biomarkers of an emerging subclass of synthetic cannabinoids, called OXIZID, to monitor potential ...
Oct. 31, 2022 The researchers suggest that mass school shootings are different from other forms of mass murder, and that they should be looked at as a distinct phenomenon. Factors other than severe mental illness ...
July 14, 2022 A new study of data from Chicago found that the neighborhoods where violent crime fell the most, cardiovascular disease mortality fell sharply, ...
Large Study of Whole Genome Sequencing Data Reveals 'Treasure Trove' of Clues About Causes of Cancer
Apr. 21, 2022 DNA analysis of thousands of tumours from patients has found a 'treasure trove' of clues about the causes of cancer, with genetic mutations providing a personal history of the damage and ...
Apr. 12, 2022 New research is helping law enforcement agents, forensic scientists and historians uncover attempts to hide ...
Mar. 31, 2022 Skin cells and their DNA varies between individuals, but new data shows that some groups of people have higher variability in their cell deposits. The South Australian forensic science researchers ...
Mar. 29, 2022 Researchers have proposed a method of assigned sex estimation that is 'population-inclusive,' or one that did not inherently rely on any estimation of ancestry (population affinity) by ...
Jan. 28, 2022 A new study has determined the post-mortem interval of human skeletal remains using real samples, which has been made possible by the combination of two non-destructive analytical tools: Raman ...
Dec. 14, 2021 Efforts to eradicate a human parasitic disease are being hampered by dogs eating infected fish, new research ...
Dec. 10, 2021 Detecting the activity of CRISPR gene editing tools in organisms with the naked eye and an ultraviolet flashlight is now possible using new ...
Nov. 19, 2021 Identifying specific facial features that can be used to distinguish a child's face from an adult's may offer a useful tool for determining whether children are depicted in indecent images ...
Nov. 15, 2021 Researchers have trained computers to predict the next designer drugs before they are even on the market, technology that could save lives. Identifying these so-called 'legal highs' within ...
Harnessing Thor’s Hammer: How Forensic Science Is Unlocking the Mysteries of Fatal Lightning Strikes
Nov. 3, 2021 New research could help forensic teams understand whether people or animals were the victims of fatal lightning strikes, based solely upon an analysis of their ...
Aug. 30, 2021 A team of researchers has come up with a new solution to boost the surveillance of designer drug abuse. The team has identified three new urinary biomarkers that could be used to detect consumption ...
July 14, 2021 A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in inconsistent ways, and calls for the discipline to adopt a new approach to better account for both the fluidity of ...
July 8, 2021 In a new article, researchers provide an overview of sample preparation techniques and information on routine sample types that may be encountered in forensic toxicology ...
June 9, 2021 Variants of viruses, such as that causing COVID-19, can now be quickly studied in the laboratory, even before they emerge in nature and become a major public health ...
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- Harnessing Thor’s Hammer: How Forensic Science Is Unlocking the Mysteries of Fatal Lightning Strikes