Category: Clinical Lens
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Explore which human fluids and excrement contain DNA, where genetic material comes from, and why a DNA match alone cannot establish how or when it arrived at a crime scene.
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A Clinical Lens explainer on how strangulation affects cerebral circulation, venous drainage, the airway, intracranial pressure, vascular injury, and why ligature material and mechanism matter.
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A trauma-informed clinical guide to sexual assault: consent and incapacitation, SANE/SAFE exams, forensic evidence, drug-facilitated assault, medical care, reporting options, and short- and long-term effects.