Suggested Citation: "Executive Summary." National Research Council. 1996. The Evaluation of Forensic DNA Evidence. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5141. This committee was ...

DNA evidence is supposed to be the gold standard of criminal investigation. But what happens when that same technology sends ...

The Saint Louis University Forensic Science program offers courses with hands-on learning opportunities. FRSC 2600 - Survey of Forensic Science 3 credits Students learn scientific methodology, its ...

The state used about $1 million in federal COVID emergency funding to purchase and outfit the mobile forensic service.

Presented in the Channel: Breakouts. In recent years, as forensic science DNA technology has matured, the focus has become on how to obtain effective and complete DNA STR typing from trace material ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The focus in court today is shifting from eyewitness accounts to science. Jurors today are getting a closer look at forensic evidence, including the bloody clothing investigators ...

The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office says its Forensic Science Laboratory DNA facility is now fully functional. The sheriff’s office said the lab halted DNA testing after identifying a DNA profile ...

Rape cases could be solved quicker thanks to a forensic science breakthrough. Researchers in Canada have developed a "radical" new technique for analyzing evidence in sexual assault cases. They say ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. It’s been more than 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci died. Yet, in those intervening ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...