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2009 - November 23

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The ASCLD Board of Directors would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. 

News around the globe

 

India to have DNA related laws soon: Chidambaram
India
Jaipur Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has said the Central Government would soon bring out a bill in parliament on DNA testing.
 
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Forensic Scientists at Kansas City Crime Lab Release Validation Report Confirming Zygem's forensicGEM(R) Kit is a Reliable, Rapid Method for Extracting DNA From Saliva
PR Newswire
In the application note, forensic scientists at the Crime Laboratory of the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department describe their experience using ZyGEM's forensicGEM(®) Saliva kit to extract DNA for forensic analysis from 20 saliva samples with known profiles that were collected on buccal swabs.
 
Nationwide, 14 percent of open homicide cases and 18 percent of open rape cases contain forensic evidence that has not been sent to a crime lab for analysis.
 
After sheriff's deputies discovered human bones scattered around private property in Houston County recently, they turned to the Southeast Texas Applied Forensic Science Facility, also commonly referred to as STAFS or "the body farm" for help.
 

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