News tagged with forensic research
New Advance in Revolutionary 'Bullet Fingerprinting' Technique
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- 'Bullet fingerprinting' technology developed at the University of Leicester in collaboration with Northamptonshire Police is now being advanced in new ways.
Analysis of Copernicus putative remains support identity
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Swedish and polish researchers now publish results from the analysis of the putative remains of Copernicus. A DNA-analysis of shed of hairs found in a book from Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala University, was ...
Novel Forensic Technique To Be Applied To Decade-Old Murder Probe
Jan 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A pioneering forensic scientist at Northamptonshire Police and the University of Leicester is being called on by US force officers to tackle a decade-old murder case.
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Study probes impact of CSI-style programming on jurors
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new psychological study from the University of Leicester aims to investigate how accurate people's perceptions about forensic science are, where these beliefs come from, and how this forensic awareness ...
Whose Tattoo Is It Anyway?
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An infra-red digital camera could be a crucial tool in the fight against crime when trying to identify suspects by their tattoos, according to new University of Derby research.
Quantitative approach to forensic fingerprint comparison studied
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 30, 2009 |
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The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has awarded researchers at Virginia Tech a two-year, $854,907 grant to develop a quantitative approach to measuring and establishing a standard for "sufficiency" of information available ...
Israeli scientists find way to combat forged DNA
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Israeli scientists have developed new technology to fight biological identity theft after realising that DNA evidence found at crime scenes can be easily falsified.
Crime scene measurements can be taken from a single image
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Two researchers from the University of Salamanca have developed a procedure to enable forensic police to extract metric data from crime scenes using just a single photograph. Their proposal, published this ...
New Fingerprint Breakthrough by Forensic Scientists
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Forensic scientists at the University of Leicester, working with Northamptonshire Police, have announced a major breakthrough in crime detection which could lead to hundreds of cold cases being reopened.
New Forensic Method Aims to Predict What a Person Looks Like from DNA Sample
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Arizona research team recently completed a study looking at the DNA blueprint of almost 1,000 individuals and comparing that to detailed measurements of their hair, skin and ...
Researchers Find Fingerprints in Murder Case
Dec 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A pioneering forensic scientist at Northamptonshire Police and the University of Leicester has helped detectives move a step closer to solving a murder case.
Texts to reveal 'Whodunnit'
Aug 10, 2006 |
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Psychologists at the University of Leicester are to investigate texting language to provide new tools for criminal investigation.
NIST develops experimental validation tool for cell phone forensics
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Viewers of TV dramas don't focus on the technology behind how a forensics crime team tracks a terrorist or drug ring using cell phone data, but scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology do. NIST researchers ...
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