Combating bioterrorism is a challenge to all of us. To be proactive, the U.S. Government has formalized the discipline of "microbial forensics" to deter and attribute perpetrators of such acts. This Policy Forum describes the foundations of the microbial forensics program: the creation of a national bioforensics laboratory, a partnership laboratory network, and a peer-consensus scientific worki...

My assignment, as chairman of the Research and Development Working Group of the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, is to look ahead 10 years into the new technologies that are expected to emerge during this period and try to assess the impact that these will have on DNA forensics. I would like to tell you something of the group’s thinking. Let me add that we welcome, indeed we s...

Integrated Digital Forensics Investigation Framework (IDFIF) is a method of investigation of a general nature. IDFIF evolved into IDFIF version 2 that is a method of treatment focuses on smartphones. IDFIF v2 can not be applied to network investigation it is necessary to develop a version 3 IDFIF focused on network forensics. This research is the development of network forensics framework using...

The information available relating to the several phases of the problem of specificity in serological reactions has been thoroughly canvassed by Landsteiner,3 who has prepared an admirable critical statement of the results accumulated from the days of Uhlenhuth and of Nuttall down to the year 1936. From his text it is evident that, by various technics, it is readily possible to distinguish sero...

This article explores the articulation of a novel forensic object-the 'crime scene'-and its corresponding expert-the investigating officer. Through a detailed engagement with the work of the late nineteenth-century Austrian jurist and criminalist Hans Gross, it analyses the dynamic and reflexive nature of this model of 'CSI', emphasising the material, physical, psychological and instrumental me...

This article discusses the merits of participation by medical examiners in the area of clinical forensic medicine. The present connotation that we deal after the fact should be abandoned with enhanced involvement in assisting the living. The paper focuses on a broad range of categories where forensic scientists by virtue of their training and experience could be most helpful in the application ...

We investigated ancestry of 3,528 modern humans from 163 samples. We identified 19 ancestral components, with 94.4% of individuals showing mixed ancestry. After using whole genome sequences to correct for ascertainment biases in genome-wide genotype data, we dated the oldest divergence event to 140,000 years ago. We detected an Out-of-Africa migration 100,000-87,000 years ago, leading to people...

This work is an addition to the many useful works forming the "Medical Series" being issued by the Messrs. Griffin for practitioners and students, and is produced by them in a pleasant type and on good paper. We presume Dr. Mann's Lectures are the original basis of this work, as it partakes so much of the very necessary compression needed by such a subject for such a purpose. To treat the subje...