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Just Portable Mass Spectrometer Possibilities In the fifth episode of the NIJ R&D Season, Just Science speaks with Dr. Jamie Wieland and Dr. Christopher Mulligan of Illinois State University about assessing the impact of implementing portable mass spectrometers for on-site drug evidence processing. Listen along as Just Science explores cross-disciplinary research to determine the analytical, […]
RTI provides independent, objective scientifically rigorous research, development, and evaluation for the forensic science community and related sectors. Our work encompasses world-class experts and facilities in forensic toxicology, including unique capabilities in analytical methods, new testing matrices, and proficiency testing. Our programs have expanded to include pattern evidence, DNA, medicolegal death investigation, policy and overarching issues such as human factors and statistical interpretation. RTI’s program is grounded in the needs of forensic science organizations and the ways that research can...
Just a Whole-Body CT Image Database In episode four of the 2018 NIJ R&D Season, Just Science speaks with Dr. Shamsi Berry, from the University of Mississippi Medical Center, about her research with standardizing a large-scale, whole-body CT image database. In 2010 the Office of the Medical Investigator for New Mexico was awarded an NIJ grant where they did […]
Thank you for your interest in our NIJ-funded study to establish a discipline-wide error rate estimate for the comparison of palm impressions (award # 2017-DN-BX-0170). We are pleased to report that we have completed data collection for this research and developed 2 online applications for exploring the results, which were presented at the 104th annual educational conference of the International Association for Identification in Reno, NV on August 15, 2019. If you would like to see the aggregate results, or...
Just Skin Microbiomes as Evidence In the third episode of the 2018 NIJ R&D Season, Just Science speaks with Dr. David Carter, Director and Associate Professor of Forensic Sciences at Chaminade University of Honolulu, about his research, “Evaluating the Skin Microbiome as Trace Evidence on Common Surface Types.” Microbiome trace evidence samples can be tracked […]
Just Microhaps Perhaps In the second episode of our new R&D Season, Just Science host Dr. John Morgan speaks with human population geneticist Dr. Kenneth Kid, Professor Emeritus of Genetics and Senior Research Scientist with 44 years under his belt at Yale University. With the advent of massively parallel sequencing, microhaplotypes have become a valuable […]
Just Speak into the Microbe-phone In the first episode of our new R&D Season, Just Science host Dr. John Morgan speaks with Dr. Bruce Budowle, the Executive Director of the Institute of Applied Genetics and Professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. Did you know that if you swab […]
Just So You Know: In Remembrance of Dr. Antonio Cantu This Just So You Know episode was produced in remembrance of Dr. Antonio Cantu who passed away Friday, June 29, 2018. “Dr. Cantu worked as a Forensic Scientist for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency […]
Innovation Advisors (IA) at RTI International helps our clients innovate by building innovation capacity, discovering and interpreting insights, and accelerating products and technology to market. Whether IA serves as an extension of a client's team or an objective third party, they know what produces sustainable results in innovation-driven organizations. For over 50 years, RTI Innovation Advisors has helped global organizations solve complex innovation challenges. IA has worked with NASA and federal agencies, and Fortune 500 companies such as Whirlpool and Kimberly Clark. IA has...
Just Opioid Financial Burden on Crime Labs In episode twelve of our Drugs Season, Just Science speaks to Dr. Paul Speaker, from West Virginia University, about the economic burden our justice system has from opioid deaths. They are estimating that the crime labs alone are spending around 270 million dollars a year just on the […]
