HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A Houston Forensic Science Center analyst has been fired for failing routine quality assurance tests. Those test results now call into question the work she has done on ...

A pioneering new test that can recover fingerprints from ammunition casing, once thought nearly impossible, has been developed by two Irish scientists. Dr Eithne Dempsey, and her recent PhD student Dr ...

Promising new inroads into critical DNA testing has been forecast by experts who have applied machine learning to DNA profiling. From medical diagnostics to forensic tests and national security, PCR ...

You’ve seen it countless times. Police scope out the scene of a crime and find a piece of evidence: a strand of hair, a blood sample, a bullet casing. It goes to the lab, and after forensic scientists ...

A Houston forensic lab analyst failed a test meant to measure her attention to detail, leading to her firing and a mass notification about potentially tainted DNA tests in hundreds of Harris County ...

CBF Forensics, a northwest Indiana forensic and education startup, has launched two new products: virtual reality (VR) programming for forensic crime scene training and a system to quantify the amount ...

Our criminal justice system often functions in an environment which is saturated with social pressure, hostile witnesses, ...

Forensic anthropologists face mental health risks due to chronic exposure to violent death. Vicarious trauma and burnout can arise even without direct experience of violence.