Material identification and analysis are crucially important within the forensic analysis field. Similarly to how there is no pre-determined set of materials that comprises all forensic lab analytes, ...

A newly developed test could make checking DNA from people arrested for crimes with DNA samples from crime scenes stored in forensic databases almost as easy as matching fingerprints. With the test, ...

A new form of PCR has been used to improve the library preparation for forensic DNA typing from difficult samples like touch evidence and human remains. Typically, DNA sequencing and analysis is ...

Forensic DNA profiling based on short tandem repeat (STR) markers currently allows the identification of persons already known to the investigating authorities. This technology has recently been ...

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 cases. As analytical ...

SCIEX has launched its SWATH® data-independent acquisition (DIA) technology for analytical scientists working across all application areas. SWATH Acquisition is ground-breaking in allowing the ...

The tools used for crime scene and reference sample collection continue to be rigorously scrutinized and often successfully challenged in criminal cases in courts of law nationwide and globally.

Scientist Alicia Quartermain concerned evidence may have been omitted from criminal cases DNA evidence may have been omitted from criminal cases in Queensland because some samples weren’t tested ...

Forensic experts have obtained a DNA profile of the unknown killer of a schoolgirl raped and shot dead 62 years ago near Swansea, Wales. Scientists isolated the killer's DNA from a semen stain on the ...

Government declared last year that more than 100,000 samples may need to be re-tested Queensland has passed laws to ensure its forensic testing service is independent and impartial after failings led ...

(Boston)--As analytical instrumentation (gas- and liquid-chromatographs coupled with mass spectrometers) increase in sensitivity and speed, forensic scientists may find themselves still hindered by ...