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"As scientists, we act as advocates for the truth," says Bieber, who teaches Biology E-190, "Principles of Forensic Science," offered through the Extension School. "Attorneys must naturally be adversarial, because they either win or lose."
"It is a misconception that forensic genetics is only used to restrict freedom and convict people," says Bieber, who says that courses on this increasingly important field are rare. "Its use often results in exoneration of those falsely accused or incarcerated."
The National Research Council (NRC), in a bookcalled DNA Technology in Forensic Science,proposed a "ceiling method" to get around theproblems with the process. According to NRCguidelines, any sample which matches the generalpopulation's gene pool more than 10 percent shouldnot be considered a conclusive match.
British and Russian forensic scientists have determined beyond all doubt that bones discovered two years ago at Ekaterinburg in the Urals are those of Czar Nicholas II and his family, murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918. DNA from the remains was compared with that of samples taken later from Romanov...
Looking for hard-hitting drama, classic battles between good and evil, stories that make your skin crawl and your blood boil? Prime time has plenty to offer. In the space of one week, you could visit a psychiatric hospital that (so the story claimed) confines teenage patients with fraudulent diagnoses...