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NewsAlarm sounded after chemists discover new analogue of ketamine in Australia
Long-term health effects of novel psychoactive substance are unknown
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Feature
How a murder and a bombing cleaned up DNA profiling
The UK pioneered a forensic process to identify suspects from tiny amounts of DNA, but occasional flaws had big consequences. Andy Extance pieces together the whole story for the first time
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Feature
The human health observatory in our sewers
From tracking disease outbreaks to monitoring drug use, there’s a lot to be learned from the things we flush down the toilet, Katrina Krämer finds
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Research
Edible, fluorescent silk tags could help stem tide of counterfeit medicines
Marker could be a simple answer to ensuring provenance of drugs
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News
Public inquiry into Novichok poisoning death of Dawn Sturgess announced
UK investigation will examine any Russian involvement in the case of a woman who died after coming into contact with a nerve agent in 2018
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Research
Individual proteins identified with world’s tiniest ruler
Nanosized caliper that can identify individual proteins could ‘do for proteins what next-generation sequencing did for DNA’
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Opinion
The dead of aconite
Whether human, witch or werewolf, beware a flower known as the queen of poisons
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Business
The future of ‘next generation’ DNA sequencing
As it gets cheaper and easier to read genetic code, its applications are expanding rapidly
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News
US intelligence can’t agree if Covid-19 came from an animal or a lab
After months of investigation agencies remain divided on most likely origin of Sars-CoV-2
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News
Shedding light on Nazi-era uranium cubes with modern nuclear forensics
US team are using radiochronometry to confirm their authenticity and origins
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Opinion
Insulin as a murder weapon
Forensic experts can tell if high insulin levels have a natural or criminal cause
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Opinion
Stable isotopic analysis identifies unknown casualties of war
Humanitarian aid provided by forensic science
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Research
Elemental analysis of skid marks could connect a car’s tyres to a crime scene
New technique could be a valuable addition to forensic scientists’ toolkit
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Research
Case closed on decades old mystery of American bald eagle deaths
Invasive plant and cyanobacterium join up to form a deadly duo that have been killing US wildlife
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News
Massachusetts crime lab scandal could widen as another chemist is investigated
A third Massachusetts state chemist is being investigated for possible misconduct that might have resulted in wrongful convictions
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Research
Rapid test can tell human from animal blood at crime scenes
Spectroscopy combined with statistics could provide answers in hit-and-run cases
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Opinion
Identifying mineralised tissue in the fight against wildlife crime
Is it horn, antler, teeth, ivory… or artificial?
