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Hello, could someone explain to me a procedure for DNA recovery after cyanoacrylate fuming (superglue) + staining. Do you previously decontaminate the surface with bleach or exituplus and then rinse with Miliq water (to remove decontaminating substances)? Which kind of solvent used to dissolve cyanoacrylate layer in the swabbed? Acetone, chloroform...?
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Happy New Year. Sorry it has taken so long for me to write and to thank you for your answer.I have had a covid plague in the family. With your advice I will do some tests.
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I am trying to show secondary and tertiary transfer in a crime scene scenario, I cannot directly use DNA as my budget does not permit this. I'm going to use two different coloured fluorescent dyes as a representation of DNA but I do not know how to interpret this into a crime scene like scenario. I am not using DNA in this project full stop the dye is being used to represent DNA.
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Critical Factors for Successful Real-Time PCR - QIAGEN
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Hi All,
I am planning my Msc dissertation and I want to find dataset(s) from crime scenes and information about the criminals linked to these crimes. Ideally, I would like personal traits as well other than sex, age, race, and income, or previous convictions.
What I am trying to do is try to create a predictive model where investigators will insert data of a new crime scene and the model will give them the profile of a criminal they should be looking for.
I understand these datasets may exist but not be available to the public. There is plenty of information online about crimes, crime scenes, and the offenders but they are scattered around in books, articles and websites and it will take too long to gather it all in a dataset in time. I need quite a few records in order to have meaningful results and avoid as much as I can, possible bias.
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Thank you so much, I appreciate your help, there is a lot there.
Most require permission, I hope I can get it.
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I am completing a dissertation on crime scene forensic intelligence and focusing on criminalistics forensics, but having a challenge finding relevant academic research papers relating to the use of forensic intelligence use against terrorism.
Can anyone assist please?
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I agree with Artur Barun
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I am very curios about the techniques and methods use in forensic investigation in case of burnings
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The major problems about burned corpses are about identification, cause and manner of death, and postmortem interval. I suggest the following papers:
1)   Arch Kriminol. 1984 May-Jun;173(5-6):165-72.
[Immunohistochemical study of blood group activities in severely burned human tissue].
Tanaka N, Maeda H, Nagano T.
2)  Beitr Gerichtl Med. 1984;42:257-63.
[A procedure for the determination of blood group in severely charred human organ tissues and the serologic heat stability of their blood group antigens].
Nagano T, Tanaka N, Maeda H.
3)   ANALYSIS OF RUGAE IN BURN VICTIMS AND CADAVERS TO SIMULATE ...
www.iofos.eu/Journals/JFOS Jun05/Limson.june05.pdf
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Could anybody provide me with articles about the impact of Islam or religious beliefs on ethical behaviour in the forensic science workplace such as crime laboratory/ crime scene?
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I am looking for information on the effects environmental conditions, ie: weather soil conditions and time have on the effective testing of accelrants at a fire scene.
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The lab used carbon strip absorption.  When speaking with the lab tech she stated that there were elements typical of gasoline found in one sample that she had re-run at an amplified rate to she if she could get a better result.  The end result was she could not give a positive determination that the elements detected were from gasoline, only similar to gasoline.  She agreed that the time delay between taking the samples and the fire were not in the lab's favour...
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I am a field deputy medicolegal investigator and often have questions regarding scenes. The blood was beginning to coagulate and separate.  What would be an approximate time for this to occur? The scene was inside and the temperature was about 75 degrees.  I need to estimate the time of death. Rigor was absent. 
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Hi Carole, this is a very interesting problem, but I am afraid that there  is no universal metric on how fast blood clots.
There are so many variables. If the victim was taking aspirin, Zoloft, alcohol, opioids, etc that inhibit platelet function and/or inhibit normal liver production of clotting factors, then it is almost impossible to determine anything from a blood sample at the scene.
Additionally, blood coagulates differently depending on the surface that it is deposited on.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help.