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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
May 21, 2021 Depressive disorders are among the most frequent illnesses worldwide. The causes are complex and to date only partially understood. The trace element lithium appears to play a role. The distribution ...
May 20, 2021 New research has found that some brain activity methods used to detect incriminating memories do not work accurately in older ...