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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Forensic Biology"”.
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Bioinformatics and Next Generation Sequencing: Applications of Arthropod Genomes
… biotechnology, virology, biological systematics, forensic biology, and anthropology. Taken together, it has offered us brilliant insights into life sciences. Most of the work presented in this thesis describes NGS applications on genome assembly, genome annotation, and comparative genomics, using …
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A Forensic Study of Unnatural Deaths in Kuwait: Epidemiological, Virtual Autopsy and DNA Investigations
Forensic science is growing rapidly in the world today. During the past decade, medico-legal investigations have been highly expanded to include all areas of forensic science. The present study investigated three important aspects of forensic biology. First, this present project investigated, a …
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Forensic DNA phenotyping and massive parallel sequencing
In the forensic science community, there is an immense need for tools to help assist investigations where conventional DNA profiling methods have been non-informative. Forensic DNA Phenotyping (FDP) aims to bridge that gap and aid investigations by providing physical appearance information when …
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Blood on FTA™ Paper: Does Punch Location Affect the Quality of a Forensic DNA Profile?
Forensic DNA profiling is widely used as an identification tool for associating an individual with evidence of a crime. Analysis of a DNA sample involves observation of data in the form of an electropherogram, and subsequently annotating a DNA “profile” from an individual or from the evidence. The …
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Soil Microbial Community Response to Human Decomposition in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
… associated with human decomposition at the Forensic Research Outdoor Station (FROST) in Marquette, Michigan – a unique taphonomy research facility characterized by cold temperatures, sandy soil, over 100 inches of snow annually, and close proximity to Lake Superior.</p> <p>Existing soil …
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Methylation-Specific Differentiation of Vaginal Epithelial Cells for Forensic Tissue Typing by Bisulfite Conversion and Pyrosequencing
… that may or may not have taken place. Current forensic techniques can identify blood, saliva, seminal fluid, and spermatozoa, but there is a clear absence of reliable testing to identify vaginal epithelial tissue. Though there are serological tests available for this purpose, tissue-specific …