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 | | |  Case Study: The First Criminal Conviction Using NGS
In this interview with Dr. Peter de Knijff, he explains how his laboratory used next generation sequencing to resolve a difficult sexual assault case, leading to the first criminal conviction of its kind. The suspect was previously acquitted due to inconclusive results from traditional DNA typing methods.
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| | | | |  In a study of six adults, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report evidence that a single vaping episode of cannabis that is similar in chemical composition to that found in legal hemp products could possibly result in positive results on urine drug screening tests commonly used by many employers and criminal justice or school systems. | | | | |  In 2017, more than 28,000 cases of fatal overdoses in the United States involved fentanyl. Just a pinch of the synthetic opioid, estimated to be 100 times stronger than morphine, can be lethal. | | | | |  A team from the University of Waterloo have developed a direct and fast means of quantifying drug levels in beverages and bodily fluids. Using a new analytical setup – dielectric barrier discharge (DBD), combined with high-resolution mass spectrometry – the team achieved an enhanced dynamic range of detection and lower limits of quantitation, compared to the prevailing techniques. | |
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