A study assesses the reliability of a forensic identification technique. Photographic pattern analysis, in which features on a perpetrator's face, hands, or clothing, obtained from crime scene ...

1. Introduction / Krista E. Latham, Eric J. Bartelink, Michael Finnegan -- Section I. Advances in biological profile construction. 2. Human skeletal variation and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- When an explosion, accidental cremation or a fire set deliberately to cover a crime destroys a body, precious little may remain to link it to a life once lived. Yet even among the ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Verogen Inc., a dedicated developer of human identification products for sequencing and analysis of forensic genomic samples, is building on its partnership with Cellmark ...

Law enforcement personnel, laboratory technicians, crime scene investigators and many others face a significant challenge for identification of materials in a forensic investigation. During an ...

In 1247, Song Ci, a Chinese medicolegist, wrote the first monograph for modern forensics called Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified. The main aim of Song Ci was to preserve human life, and the ...

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, ...

This Special Issue focuses on critical identification cases, as forensic experts increasingly face significant challenges in identifying human remains, both in routine and extraordinary circumstances.

Forensic entomology harnesses the life cycles and behaviours of insects to provide critical evidence in death investigations, particularly for estimating the post‐mortem interval (PMI). At its core, ...

A single strand of hair in a crime scene contains many clues that can help identify a perpetrator. In a recent study, scientists have combined two modern techniques, called surface-enhanced Raman ...