Despite playing an increasingly vital role in criminal investigations, digital forensic examiners face staffing cuts, heavy caseloads and stress within police departments that may not fully understand their responsibilities.

An expert in forensic anthropology argues that the database should include computer records of citizens such as anthropological data, physiognomic characteristics, medical information, radiographic files, dental records and numbers of different identity documents.

By William Loeffler Dead men tell no tales, goes the creaky adage. But before the "CSI" team unearths its stories each week on CBS, it's the job of David Berman and Jon Wellner to make sure each fragment of forensic evidence brought to light has its basis in fact.

The RSID - Saliva Test Kit provides sensitivity and specificity Independent Forensics, one of the country's leading DNA forensic laboratories, today announced the release of the Rapid Stain Identification Saliva Kit (RSID-Saliva).

WITHOUT warning, Professor Allan Jamieson claps his hands together in mid-conversation and beams broadly. "Now you can see what a murder scene looks like," he says, opening his hands to reveal the unfortunate victim, a now very dead fly.