Alcohol-based antiseptics used to kill bacteria on your hands could also potentially kill your career if you’re required to undergo regular testing for alcohol consumption, according to a new study. Even though they’re rubbed onto the skin rather than ingested, alcohol-based hand hygiene products can still cause the alcohol levels in your bloodstream to spike […]

Another crime laboratory in danger: US Army
Some folks seem to think that laboratory errors are confined to local laboratories and rouge out-of-control isolated agents who are either sloppy or up to no good. Intuitively, we know this is not true. Laboratories are run by humans. Humans make mistakes. Some humans deliberately lie to get what they want and to keep themselves […]

The Week 49 Forensic Science Geek of the Week Question
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I am my brother’s keeper: Familial DNA testing
I like to use transferable concepts to provoke thought. Rather than just talk about familial DNA testing in a boring way, let’s have some fun. Let’s go back to Star Trek. If you haven’t seen Star Trek before at least once, then maybe you should just give up in life, right? Do you remember this […]