Forensic News

Posted November 5, 2009:

• Test Proves 'The Eyes Have It' For ID Verification

Posted November 2, 2009:

• Security Measures Lead To False Sense Of Security: Scientists Dispute Use Of National Security Tools

Posted October 31, 2009:

• New DNA Method Makes It Easier To Trace Criminals

Posted October 29, 2009:

• Researchers Rest Their Case: TV Consumption Predicts Opinions About Criminal Justice System

Posted October 11, 2009:

• New Technology Detects Chemical Weapons In Seconds

Posted September 23, 2009:

• A Flash Of Light Turns Graphene Into A Biosensor

Posted September 17, 2009:

• Bitemark Evidence And Analysis Should Be Approached With Caution, According To Study

Posted September 1, 2009:

• Bioavailable Contaminants Come From Exxon Valdez Oil Catastrophe; Natural Coal Deposits Not Source Of Environmental Pollution, Study Finds

Posted August 28, 2009:

• New Ultrasensitive Electronic Sensor Array Speeds Up DNA Detection

Posted August 17, 2009:

• 'Smell Of Death' Research Could Help Recover Bodies In Disasters And Solve Crimes

Posted August 13, 2009:

• Scientists Find New Way To Extract Diluted And Contaminated DNA

Posted July 15, 2009:

• New Advance In Revolutionary 'Bullet Fingerprinting' Technique

Posted July 10, 2009:

• Faster, More Cost-effective DNA Test For Crime Scenes, Disease Diagnosis

Posted June 9, 2009:

• Geese Involved In Hudson River Plane Crash Were Migratory

Posted May 18, 2009:

• DNA Gripped In Nanopores: Researchers Analyze Forces On DNA In Gel

Posted May 1, 2009:

• XBox Forensics
• Forensic Facial Composite Software Effective In Police Investigations

Posted April 30, 2009:

• High Marks For New Technology For Fingerprint Identification

Posted March 18, 2009:

• New Technique Developed To Date Forensic Death Based On Corpse Microorganisms

Posted March 5, 2009:

• Historic Sample Of Bomb-grade Plutonium Discovered

Posted February 27, 2009:

• Traces Of Blood Are Eliminated Completely By New Products Containing Active Oxygen

Posted February 19, 2009:

• 'Badly Fragmented' Forensic Science System Needs Overhaul

Posted January 22, 2009:

• Novel Forensic Technique To Be Applied To Decade-old Murder Probe

Posted December 12, 2008:

• Pesticides Are In For It Now

Posted November 20, 2008:

• 'America's Most Wanted' Murder Case To Be Investigated By Pioneering UK Forensic Scientist

Posted November 19, 2008:

• Improved Spectrometer Based On Nonlinear Optics

Posted September 26, 2008:

• Photonic Crystal Biosensors Detect Protein-DNA Interactions
• Genetic Testing Anywhere: Micro-sizes Hand-held 'Lab-on-a-chip' Devices Under Development

Posted September 24, 2008:

• What Is The Impact Of CSI-style Programming On Jurors?

Posted September 18, 2008:

• Criminals Who Eat Processed Foods More Likely To Be Discovered, Through Fingerprint Sweat Corroding Metal

Posted September 8, 2008:

• Txt Crimes, Sex Crimes And Murder: The Science Of Forensic Linguistics

Posted September 1, 2008:

• New Field Of Research Could Help Police In Crime Scene Forensics

Posted August 28, 2008:

• Fingerprint Breakthrough Hope In US Double Murder Probe

Posted August 27, 2008:

• Fingerprint Analysis Technique Could Be Used To Identify Bombmakers

Posted August 4, 2008:

• Guilt On Their Hands: Tiny 'Tags' Could Help To Solve And Deter Gun Crime

Posted July 29, 2008:

• Structure Of Hepatitis B Mapped By Spraying Virus

Posted June 10, 2008:

• Sniffing Out A Broad-spectrum Of Airborne Threats In Seconds

Posted June 4, 2008:

• New Fingerprint Breakthrough By Forensic Scientists

Posted May 23, 2008:

• New Technology Puts Biomedical Imaging In Palm Of Hands

Posted May 16, 2008:

• Firearms Microstamping Feasible But Variable, Study Finds

Posted May 7, 2008:

• New Method For Processing Rape Evidence Could Eliminate Crime-lab Backlogs

Posted May 3, 2008:

• New 'Weapon' In Forensics: Device Detects Latent Prints On Human Skin

Posted April 21, 2008:

• 3-D Images -- Cordless And Any Time

Posted April 12, 2008:

• DNA Paternity Test Almost Fooled: Man Put Someone Else's Saliva In His Mouth

Posted April 9, 2008:

• Crime Scene Investigations: Gunshot Residue Analysis On A Single Gunpowder Particle

Posted March 27, 2008:

• Biosensing Nanodevice To Revolutionize Health Screenings

Posted March 25, 2008:

• CSI Fact Catching Up With Fiction As Chemists Develop New Technology

Posted March 17, 2008:

• Handheld DNA Detector

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