DNA Establishes Legal Paternity Quickly And Accurately

Most of us today take for granted that paternity testing can be proved through scientific means. This has not always been true. There once was a time when a lie could not be proven false or true and eyewitnesses motivated by high moral standings or in the depths of personally guided misspeaking were taken as gospel truth. Legal Paternity Testing The Old Way The most popular way for determining paternity was a judge standing a child (sitting or lying) next to an accused father, taking a good hard look and then making a determination. The coincidental fact that each person may have the same hair and eye color, the same shaped face and other.......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

The Many Faces Of DNA Testing

DNA testing is something many of us are only familiar with from TV police shows, but there are a wide range of different applications for DNA testing, all of which are used for the same reason as in criminal investigations. Testing for genetic markers is a reliable means of determining the identity of people based on a sample, such as in paternity testing. How many different kinds of DNA testing are there? Quite a few, as it happens and in this article, we will cover a few of the most common. Paternity Testing: Before DNA testing became the standard practice for paternity testing, blood group testing was the rule. While this method was rel.......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

Hints On Prenatal Testing

There is the so called prenatal paternity test for those who need to know the paternal relationship before the child is born. But by definition under medical parlance, prenatal testing is the process applied to test for diseases or conditions in a fetus or embryo before it is born. It is more aimed at determining birth defects or abnormalities before delivery. In this process, the screening can likewise determine the sex or gender of the fetus. In some cases, the tests are administered to determine if the fetus will be aborted. Either way, this is very important because parents would know what to do under the circumstances. That way, they .......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

Legal Paternity: Perspectives

Under the law, legal paternity is the acknowledgment of the parental relationship between a man and a child. In common law, a child born to the wife during a marriage is the husband's child, pursuant to the so called presumption of lawful paternity. The husband or father then is vested with complete rights, duties and obligations with respect to the child. This presumption nevertheless can be refuted by contrary evidence. Jurisdictions differ widely on when a judgment establishing paternity or a support obligation based on the presumption can be set aside on the grounds that the husband was not in fact the father. In this particular juris.......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

Forensic Science Technician Training

Continually since the popular sensation TV show CSI has made its way onto TV there has been a fantastically sizable influx of students seeking to develop into forensic science technicians. Which is understandable, after all it is an enormously stimulating and thrilling profession to enter. What people tend to overlook is the enormous amount of learning and preparation that is considered necessary in order to become a Forensic science technician. In order to Become a Forensic scientist it is only required that the applicant has an AA in forensics. Though getting a high-quality job, or any job as a forensic science technician will most like.......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

The Hows and Whys of Forensic Science

by James Gilbert Pynn The relatively new field of forensic science has radically changed the way law enforcement officials build their cases. Modern crime fighting is now the convergence of law enforcement, the judicial system, and science. Subsequently, it has changed the way policing in general and investigations specifically are conducted. Being caught red-handed need not mean at the scene or even hours later. In some cases, forensic science has solved cases decades after the fact. During the late 1700s, the field we now associate with forensic science began to emerge from various scientific endeavors that evolved over the previous.......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

Forensic Science

I was talking to Sammy yesterday and our conversation went something like this... .......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

Crime Scene Investigation and Forensic Anthropology

Professors Marilyn London and Tom Mauriello join Andrew Wolvin, Ph.D., to discuss how scientists assist in criminal investigations. They take a look at the lives, research, and education of criminal investigators and forensic anthropoligists to show how science is being used to solve crimes. .......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

Back Pain Management Or Relief – Myths And Realities

by Christine Sutherland WHY YOU STILL HAVE BACK PAIN, DESPITE TREATMENT, AND HOW TO GET THE RESULT YOU WANT The Proof The overwhelming share of chronic pain is suffered by people with back pain, and yet treatment typically fails to eliminate or even reduce the level of suffering. We waste over $12 billion on failed chronic pain programs here in Australia every year, and in the USA it is more than double that. If you add on the lost wages of the sufferer, and the cost in lost productivity to businesses, the costs run into many hundreds of billions of dollars, every year. It's easy to imagine what this does to the health system, b.......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

Lower Back Pain – The 7 Essential Steps To Recovery

by Christine Sutherland What's the most common form of chronic pain on the planet? Lower back pain! And many people suffer from it for years, with no respite no matter what treatment they try. It's those long-term sufferers who have the most to gain from reading this article. CHRONIC LOWER BACK PAIN REQUIRES A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT APPROACH Back pain can be considered to be "chronic pain" when it persists over a long time without improvement, despite following treatment recommendations. The fascinating thing about chronic pain is that it has little or nothing to do with actual damage or injury. Using x-rays of spinal damage, .......................... READ FULL ARTICLE