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A lack of funding to improve forensic science is jeopardizing the integrity of the criminal justice system, a new report warns today (Jan. 6)

By mimicking how dogs get their whiffs, researchers have demonstrated that “active sniffing” can improve by more than 10 times the performance of current technologies that rely on continuous suction to detect trace amounts of explosives and other contraband

In addition to providing a more accurate timeline for the evolution of smallpox, the researchers were also able to identify distinct periods of viral evolution

With additional research, this microbiome-based method promises a far more definitive method to establish time since death

The faith the public and the criminal justice system place in forensic science far outpaces the amount of trust it deserves, according to opinion piece by a Georgia State associate professor of law

Diet, medications, and beauty products leave molecular traces on the objects we touch, providing an unbiased, data-driven profiling method for crime scene investigations and other potential applications

The test could lead to rapid, low cost roadside testing for cocaine use

The researchers report in a recent paper that using the miVac DNA concentrator, they were able to dry 44 samples in approximately 15 minutes

Technique will help increase the efficiency for forensic laboratories that are faced with growing caseloads and limited resources

Because drugs tend to be small-molecule structures, gas-chromatography-MS (GC-MS) serves as confirmation both for alcohol level and for most drugs.

The system will cost around $5,000, which is about one-tenth the cost of systems commercially available, and represents an alternative to the traditional method of plaster casting