(PresseBox) (Martinsried, 28.11.2013) Within all areas of forensic science, there is an ongoing need for new strategies and techniques and the development of matching instrumentation.
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Posted in New ID Technologies
Plumstead could become the lead municipality in an effort to create a regional DNA database in Central Bucks County.
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Posted in Database
Iowa City police today charged a former Iowa City man with the 1997 murder of his wife. Iowa City officers, with the help of local police, arrested 73-year-old John Richard Bloomfield today on a warrant for first-degree murder at his home in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Posted in Cold Cases
FAIRFIELD, Ohio, Nov. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — According to Hillsborough County Circuit Court, Case #02-CF-15542, and Florida Dept of Law Enforcement, Case # 20030300771, on Wednesday, November 20, 2013, the Florida State Attorney’s Office for the 13th Judicial Circuit dropped all charges against Cheydrick Britt related to a 2002 sexual battery charge based on new DNA test results conducted by the Forensics team at DNA Diagnostics Center (DDC) in Fairfield, Ohio, led by Dr. Julie Heinig, the Forensic Director and DNA Technical Leader. DDC is the world’s largest provider of private DNA tests in the country, and Mr. Britt-who spent over 9 years wrongfully convicted and incarcerated-is the 7th such case that DDC has proved an inmate’s innocence.
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Posted in Innocence Project
Nov. 24–U.S. Army Pfc. Lawrence S. Gordon didn’t come home from World War II. And he wasn’t buried in an American cemetery.
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Posted in Missing Persons
It may be constitutional but Utah lawmakers aren’t rushing to expand DNA collection from those suspected — but not convicted — of committing a crime.
The Legislature’s Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee on Wednesday balked at giving its stamp of approval to a draft bill that would require collection of DNA swabs at the time of arrest from anyone booked on suspicion of a class A misdemeanor or felony.
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Posted in DNA Legislation
Butte County is one of eight California counties that offers a new service that will process and analyze DNA evidence in sexual assault cases within 15 days, rather than taking months or years.
The program began Wednesday in the emergency departments of Enloe Medical Center in Chico, Oroville Hospital and Feather River Hospital in Paradise.
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Posted in Backlogs, Database, Forensic Industry News
Last July, researchers reported that they had found a direct genetic link between the remains of Native Americans who lived thousands of years ago and their living descendants. Scientists used mitochondrial DNA to track three maternal lineages from ancient times to the present, comparing the complete mitochondrial genomes of four ancient and three living individuals from the north coast of British Columbia, Canada.
The findings not only will cause population experts to rethink ancient migrations into this area, but according to advocates for native populations, will solidify these groups’ claim to their ancestral homelands.
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Posted in Mitochondrial Testing
LONDON (Reuters) – Fred Sanger, a double Nobel Prize-winning British biochemist who pioneered research into the human genome, has died at the age of 95, the University of Cambridge said on Wednesday.
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…All 50 states and the federal government take samples of DNA from anyone convicted of a felony. But in recent years, many states have passed laws allowing police to take DNA samples at arrest – before a suspect is charged with a crime, much less found guilty – and enter them into state-level databases along with the national DNA database run by the FBI…
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Posted in DNA Legislation
Eight forensic experts from the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) will fly to Tacloban City this weekend to help identify fatalities from Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), the world’s strongest storm to hit land this year.
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Posted in Mass Disaster, Missing Persons
L AFAYETTE — The crime lab that analyzes DNA, blood, fingerprints and other evidence for Acadiana law enforcement agencies faces an uncertain future if more money cannot be found to shore up the lab’s budget.
“We don’t have the revenue to make it through 2015,” Acadiana Criminalistics Laboratory Director Kevin Ardoin said.
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Posted in Forensic Industry News, Funding
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A bill that would expand the authority of police in Pennsylvania to take DNA samples from many suspects before they are convicted of crimes won approval from a key legislative panel Tuesday.
The House Judiciary Committee approved it, 23-2, but only after making changes to reflect criticism that the proposed DNA sampling would be too broad and invasive.
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Posted in DNA Legislation, Forensic Industry News
In the time it takes to watch the average movie, Bensalem Police can have the test results of DNA samples.
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Posted in Forensic Industry News
The DNA gleaned from two ancient Siberian skeletons is related to that of modern-day Native Americans and western Eurasians, new research suggests.
The genetic material from the ancient Siberians provides additional evidence that the ancestors of Native Americans made the arduous trek from Siberia across the Bering Strait into the Americas.
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Posted in Ancestry, Ancient DNA
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