Researchers from the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam have established a novel method to determine the age of bloodstains; which can be crucial in reconstructing crime events. Today, no reliable methods are available to assess the age of a blood stain on crime scenes.  Bremmer et al. established a method to determine the age of a bloodstain by measuring a bloodstain’s reflectance spectrum. The results are published in PLoS One. (more…)

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Demonstrate the impact of varying red blood cell characteristics on the UV/VIS spectrum for blood (more…)

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Determine the sensitivity of OOI hardware to nanomolar concentrations of fluorescein in glass capillary tubes (more…)

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