Peering into the Future of Forensic Science

Crystal Ball_SmallForensic analysis and law enforcement officers have many tools at their disposal to help solve crimes, including fingerprint analysis, ballistics, DNA typing and, more recently, forensic phenotyping of simple physical traits such as human eye and hair color. The forensic toolbox is ever evolving and capitalizing on new discoveries in genetics and molecular biology, allowing analysts to gather more information from a biological sample left at a crime scene and ultimately increasing our chance of catching criminals. What are some of the new technologies that we can expect to see in the not-too-distant future?

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