Understanding the variables impacting DNA transfer, persistence, prevalence and recovery
(DNA-TPPR) has become increasingly relevant in investigations of criminal activities to …

The extraction of DNA is a fairly standard procedure routinely undertaken in biological
academic and research settings. In a forensic DNA context, DNA extraction is the crucial first …

Identifying individuals from biological mixtures to which they contributed is highly relevant in
crime scene investigation and various biomedical research fields, but despite previous …

Most commercially available STR amplification kits have never been fully validated for low
template DNA analysis, highlighting the need for testing different PCR kits and conditions for …

Forensic science has yet to take full advantage of single cell analysis. Its greatest benefit is
the ability to alleviate the challenges associated with DNA mixture analysis, which remains a …

Many forensic laboratories face growing demands for the processing of DNA evidence from
sexual assault investigations. In these cases, evidence collected from the crime scene or …

Standard methods of mixture analysis involve subjecting a dried crime scene sample to
a'bulk'DNA extraction method such that the resulting isolate compromises a homogenized …

Single-cell sequencing is a fast developing and very promising field; however, it is not
commonly used in forensics. The main motivation behind introducing this technology into …

Since Y‐STR typing only amplifies male Y chromosomal DNA, it can simplify the
interpretation of some DNA mixtures that contain female DNA. However, if there are multiple …

A single focus optical tweezer is formed when a laser beam is launched through a high
numerical aperture immersion objective. This objective focuses the beam down to a …