Monthly Archives
March 2016
Improving DNA Phenotyping for Forensics
Mar 28 2016
Krystal Breslin describes the work that she’s doing at IUPUI to discover which SNPs determine eye, skin, and hair color in the hopes of making mug shots available to the...
Massively Parallel Sequencing for Forensic DNA Analysis
Mar 21 2016
Massively parallel sequencing (MPS), also called next generation sequencing (NGS), has the potential to alleviate some of the biggest challenges facing forensic laboratories, ...
Familial Searching – An Interview with Rock Harmon
Mar 14 2016
Familial Searching has been getting a lot of attention lately, and for good reason. In the fight against crime, it is essential that law enforcement is able to use all of the ...
From Death Row to Exoneration Thanks to DNA
Mar 07 2016
Kirk Bloodsworth, the first person in the United States to be freed by post-conviction DNA testing, recounts his story of how he was convicted of a brutal murder, and subseque...