European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus L.) are the most common game species in Europe, hunted for meat and trophies. Forensic investigations involving poaching may often benefit from an individual identification method to link a suspect specific incident. The current paper presents forensically validated DNA profiling system called “STRoe deer”. This consists of 12 novel unlinked tetra-nucleoti...

background : the concepts of ‘intelligence’ and ‘intellectual performance’ though seem alike, but are different. intelligence assessment of an individual is technical, is done by the application of multiple, reliable and validated, iq (intelligence quotient) tests on the same individual in different settings (date, place and time). however, ‘intellectual performance’ (ip) has a reference only t...

Background & aim: Forensic midwifery is a new major which has been established in response to the need of endangered women for forensic services and also the lack of service provision in this domain. However, there are ambiguities in the definition of this major and its scope of practice. The present study was conducted to investigate the scope of practice in forensic ...

Forensic Short Tandem Repeat (STR) genotyping is almost exclusively performed by capillary electrophoresis (CE) in specialized laboratories. As an alternative to CE, and enable miniaturized lab-on-a-chip STR profiling, we developed the QueSTR probes, a hybridization-based assay that relies on recognition cleavage of RNA:DNA duplex RNase H2 enzyme. For each allele be genotyped, matching DNA prob...

Criminal investigators, scientists, mental health experts, and the media have always studied serial killings. Since Jack Ripper in late 1800s, even today, attempts been made to understand complex issues surrounding investigation of murders motives for these horrific acts. The topics killings are attracting too much attention from media, academia, general public. Nordic crime series make a speci...

introduction: the existence of sexual dimorphism in human skeletons especially skull and its medico-legal importance had long been studied [3] [2,1]. this study has investigated the existence of sexual dimorphism in cranial dimensions of nigerian population. methods: a total of 100 adult dry skulls, (78 males, 22 females) free from damage and deformity fully ossified from departments of anatomy...

this study pursued the molecular identification of fish species from processed products for human consumption which, a priori, belonged to nine species. dna barcoding using direct sequencing of about 650 bp of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase subunit i (coi) revealed incorrect labeling in the three alaska pollack samples (11% of all samples). substitution of fish species constitutes se...