Daily Archives: August 26, 2014

Learn from the experts at ISHI 25

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ISHI ArizonaExplore timely issues in forensic DNA during workshops at this year’s ISHI.
Topics to be explored include:
• Ancestry and genealogy testing
• Interpretation of complex DNA mixtures
• Advances in next-generation sequencing
• New probabilistic software; what it is and how it works
• Complex relationship statistics
• Incorporating new autosomal and Y loci in the lab
• Working with biological evidence
See the complete workshop listing and view the general session symposium agenda at : www.ishinews.com

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The Kennewick Man Finally Freed to Share His Secrets

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kennewick manHe’s the most important human skeleton ever found in North America—and here, for the first time, is his story

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California Lawmakers Approve Bill Requiring Timely Reports of Evidence For Unanalyzed Rape Kits

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sexual assault kits(Reuters) – Amid ongoing efforts to address a backlog of unanalyzed rape kits that go untested throughout the country, California lawmakers passed a bill on Friday requiring law enforcement to process the evidence within a certain time frame.
The bill next goes for a procedural approval in the state Assembly next week before heading to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk for his signature. Brown vetoed a pilot program in 2011 that would have required certain counties to process their backlogged rape kits.

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