Spectroscopy combined with statistics could provide answers in hit-and-run cases
A rapid and accurate test can tell human blood from animal, without destroying the sample. This could assist forensic scientist onsite at hit-and-run crime scenes.
Animal and human blood are identical to the naked eye, but different at a biochemical level. Telling blood samples apart is particularly important in hit-and-run cases when suspects might lie that an incident involved an animal and not a human.