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Novel DNA Analysis Tool May Help Forensic Experts Fight Crime

Novel DNA Analysis Tool May Help Forensic Experts Fight Crime

New test developed by Australian researchers can reveal the DNA amount people shed that would help forensic examiners catch criminals. The findings of the study are published in the journal ...

Minimally Invasive Autopsy Improves Postmortem Diagnoses: Study

Minimally Invasive Autopsy Improves Postmortem Diagnoses: Study

Minimally invasive autopsy methods namely CT and MRI perform well in detecting cause of death and have the advantage of yielding more diagnoses, stated study published in the journal Radiolo...

Autopsy Discovery: Heart Disease after Death Can Help the Living

Autopsy Discovery: Heart Disease after Death Can Help the Living

Autopsy can explore deeper into cardiovascular medicine, reports a new study. The findings of the study are published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation . "Autopsy...

Formaldehyde in E-cigarettes, a Major Concern

Formaldehyde in E-cigarettes, a Major Concern

New study found that both gaseous formaldehyde and the new formaldehyde compounds were detectable at levels above OSHA workplace limits even when e-cigarettes were operated at lower, more co...

Dubai Post-mortem Report of Actress Sridevi Reveals Accidental Drowning

Dubai Post-mortem Report of Actress Sridevi Reveals Accidental Drowning

A Dubai post-mortem report of actress Sridevi Kapoor reveals that she died of accidental drowning. The report says that Sridevi, drowned in her hotel apartment's bathtub following loss ...

Solve Forensic Cases With Pacemakers, Other Cardiac Devices

Solve Forensic Cases With Pacemakers, Other Cardiac Devices

Forensic cases can be solved with pacemakers and other cardiac devices, reveals a new study. In some cases where autopsy fails, these devices reveal time and cause of death. "In fore...

Forensic DNA Analysis Helps Check Origin Of Cultured Cells

Forensic DNA Analysis Helps Check Origin Of Cultured Cells

Cell lines are cultured cells that are commonly used in medical research. New results from Uppsala University show that such cells are not always what they are assumed to be. Using genetic a...

Viruses Could be Useful to Forensic Scientists for Tracing a Person's History

Viruses Could be Useful to Forensic Scientists for Tracing a Person's History

Most people harbor herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), frequently as a strain acquired from their mothers shortly after birth and carried for the rest of their lives. The genomes of two dis...

Formaldehyde Exposure from Vaping Much Lesser Than Indoor Air

Formaldehyde Exposure from Vaping Much Lesser Than Indoor Air

The daily exposure to formaldehyde from three different types of e-cigarettes is at less than a sixth of the indoor air quality standard and also well below the levels considered safe by the...

Autopsy of Patient With MERS Provides Critical Insights

Autopsy of Patient With MERS Provides Critical Insights

At least 1,500 individuals have developed Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) since 2012, resulting in more than 500 fatalities. Only now are results being reported of the first autopsy ...

Forensic Experts Develop New Test to Predict Criminal's Age With Blood, Teeth

Forensic Experts Develop New Test to Predict Criminal's Age With Blood, Teeth

Human tissues and organs undergo changes as we grow older. This aging process is regulated by the DNA. Forensic experts from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven's (KU Leuven) forensic biomedical ...

Indian Government Passes Human DNA Profiling Bill to Allow Intimate Forensic Procedures

Indian Government Passes Human DNA Profiling Bill to Allow Intimate Forensic Procedures

According to the draft of the Human DNA Profiling Bill 2015, the Union Government has proposed to allow collection of samples from private parts of human body for DNA profiling and data pres...

Vyapam Scam: Dean's Autopsy Performed, Viscera Samples Handed Over to Police

Vyapam Scam: Dean's Autopsy Performed, Viscera Samples Handed Over to Police

Dr. Arun Sharma, the dean of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Medical College in Madhya Pradesh, was found dead in a hotel room in Delhi under mysterious circumstances. His body was sent to Safdar...

Vyapam: Delhi Hospital to Conduct Madhya Pradesh College Dean's Autopsy

Vyapam: Delhi Hospital to Conduct Madhya Pradesh College Dean's Autopsy

The dean of a Madhya Pradesh medical college, Dr. Arun Sharma, was found dead in a hotel near the Indira Gandhi International Airport in the national capital. The autopsy of his body would b...

Cancer Risk Boosted by Formaldehyde in E-Cigarettes

Cancer Risk Boosted by Formaldehyde in E-Cigarettes

E-cigarettes produce the toxic chemical formaldehyde when heated to the maximum and inhaled deeply. This makes e-cigarettes up to 15 times more cancerous than regular cigarettes, US research...

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