Ausgabe 4/2025
Inhalt (45 Artikel)
Are pre-analytical factors fully considered in forensic FFPE molecular analyses? A systematic review reveals the need for standardised procedures
- Open Access
- Review
Carlo Previderè, Serena Bonin, Calogero Cuttaia, Gianmarco Argentiero, Tommaso Livieri, Giovanni Cecchetto, Antonio Oliva, Paolo Fattorini
Determination of DNA recovery from human teeth exposed to various acids
- Open Access
- Original Article
Tuğba Ünsal Sapan, Nejla Karaboğa
A bioinformatic method to predict the 5′ ends of primer sequences in multiple STR kits
- Original Article
Yukinobu Kutsuwada, Takumi Matsuda, Tetsuya Satoh, Koichi Sakurada
Exploring transcriptomic signatures in sudden unexplained death (SUD) cases
- Open Access
- Original Article
Jacqueline Neubauer, Guro Dørum, Cordula Haas
Developmental validation of an mRNA-cSNP profiling panel for body fluids identification and individualization
- Original Article
Zhiyong Liu, Ning Wang, Qingxia Zhang, Ran Li, Jiajun Liu, Bin Luo, Yicong Wang, Lingna Xue, Riga Wu, Bin Cong, Bo Xie, Hongyu Sun
Characterization of challenging forensic DNA traces using advanced molecular technologies
- Open Access
- Original Article
Amel Larnane, Caroline Lefèvre-Horgues, Corinne Cruaud, Cédric Fund, Edith Le Floch, Florian Sandron, Béatrice Segurens, Alexandre How-Kit, Jean-François Deleuze
Enhancing trace DNA recovery from disposable face masks: insights from the COVID-19 era and beyond
- Original Article
Salem K. Alketbi, Will Goodwin
Systematically improving the efficiency of complex kinship identification through the addition of genetic markers and reference individuals
- Original Article
Shubo Wen, Man Chen, Qianqian Kong, Ao Huang, Ziwei Wang, Qiannan Xu, Xiling Liu
Identification of menstrual blood and vaginal fluid using a 4-plex MSRE-PCR system applicable to alleged sexual assault cases
- Original Article
Chia-Tzu Hsu, Li-Chin Tsai, Kuo-Lan Liu, Yu-Chih Lin, Nu-En Huang, James Chun-I. Lee, Adrian Linacre, Hsing-Mei Hsieh
A crime case involving a mixture of three individuals solved using a sample from the daughter of the person of interest
- Open Access
- Case Report
Nelly Alexandra Gómez, Ana Patricia Robles Nieto, Ginna Chacón, Rocio Lizarazo, Thore Egeland
Uniparental disomy (UPD) as the cause of inconsistencies in parentage tests: report of maternal UPD of chromosome 2 and review of the literature
- Short Communication
Cintia Fridman, João Paulo Gervasio Batista, Pamela Viana Bianchini, Vanessa Procópio Batistutti, Paulo de Sá Osório, Laura de Mello Andrade, José Eduardo Levi, Ana Cristina Victorino Krepischi, Darine Villela, Carla Rosenberg
Ischemic and non-ischemic myocardial injuries at autopsy- an overview for forensic pathologists
- Open Access
- Review
Katarzyna Michaud, Cristina Basso, Hans H. de Boer, Tony Fracasso, Monica de Gaspari, Carla Giordano, Xiaofei Li, Joaquin Lucena, Pilar Molina, Sarah Parsons, Mary N. Sheppard, Allard C. van der Wal
Quantitative investigation of diatom dispersion in lung tissue of confirmed drowning incidents
- Open Access
- Original Article
Dominik Hagen, Astrid Obermayer, Walter Stoiber, Peter Steinbacher, Jian Zhao, Fabio C. Monticelli, Stefan Pittner
Bleeding pattern in the early phase after experimental rotational acceleration induced traumatic brain injury
- Open Access
- Original Article
Daniel Andersson, Kanar Alkass, Julia Anna Mielcarz, Johan Davidsson, Henrik Druid
Elevated serum and cerebrospinal fluid levels of the synaptophysin and neurogranin with its altered brain expression in the early phase of traumatic brain injury as a potential marker of synaptic injury
- Original Article
Mieszko Olczak, Łukasz A. Poniatowski, Agnieszka Siwińska, Magdalena Kwiatkowska, Albert Acewicz
Bodies bounce – deflection of bodies following first ground impact after falls from height
- Open Access
- Case Report
Lorenz Markus Bell, Markus Große Perdekamp, Ulrike Schmidt, Vanessa Thoma
The current state of forensic imaging– clinical forensic imaging
- Open Access
- Review
Fabrice Dedouit, Mathilde Ducloyer, Jamie Elifritz, Natalie L. Adolphi, Grace Wong Yi-Li, Summer Decker, Jonathan Ford, Yanko Kolev, Michael Thali
Forensic insights into primary pyomyositis: autopsy and post-mortem CT scan based-analysis
- Case Report
Chun-Ting Chiang, Yumi Hoshioka, Yohsuke Makino, Maiko Yoshida, Ayumi Motomura, Fumiko Chiba, Suguru Torimitsu, Rutsuko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Yajima, Go Inokuchi, Shigeki Tsuneya, Hirotaro Iwase
Postmortem morphology of honeybee stings induced fatal anaphylaxis
- Open Access
- Case Report
Katerina Grusova, Tomas Vojtisek, Rexson Tse, Tomas Kalinka
Comparison of different dental age estimation methods with deep learning: Willems, Cameriere-European, London Atlas
- Open Access
- Original Article
Betul Sen Yavuz, Omer Ekmekcioglu, Handan Ankarali
Radiologic assessment of third molar development and cervical vertebral maturation to validate age of majority in a Mexican population
- Open Access
- Original Article
Ana Belén Márquez-Ruiz, Lucas González-Herrera, Juan de Dios Luna, Aurora Valenzuela
Forensic age estimation using Vieth classification in adolescents of northern China based on the knee MRI
- Original Article
Jianxin Guo, Xiaoqian Jia, Yannan Cheng, Geliang Wang, Huan Wang, Yuxin Guo, Haotian Meng, Yahui Wang, Teng Chen, Yucheng Guo
Bone age and dental age to assess criminal responsibility: Part I
- Original Article
Cristiana Palmela Pereira, Maria Vitória Lameiro, Ana Rodrigues, Francisco Salvado, Rui Santos
Bone age and dental age to assess criminal responsibility: Part II
- Original Article
Cristiana Palmela Pereira, Patrícia Antunes, Ana Rodrigues, Francisco Salvado, Rui Santos
The impact of multi-modality fusion and deep learning on adult age estimation based on bone mineral density
- Original Article
Yongjie Cao, Ji Zhang, Yonggang Ma, Suhua Zhang, Chengtao Li, Shiquan Liu, Feng Chen, Ping Huang
Age estimation in children: insights from a new Bosnian-Herzegovinian formula
- Original Article
Emina Dervišević, Aida Selmanagić, Kenan Šehić
Thanatochemistry and the role of hypoxanthine in the post-mortem interval estimation: a systematic literature review
- Open Access
- Review
Andrea Nicola Cardinale, Antonio Di Lorenzo, Mara Bellino, Giuseppe Strisciullo, Valentina Mussi, Sara Sablone
The European Council of Legal and Forensic Medicine: its role and work in progressing harmonised standards and recommendations in Forensic and Legal Medicine investigation procedures, training and teaching through pursuit of internationally agreed and peer-reviewed published guidelines
- Open Access
- Review
Denis A. Cusack
Machine learning using random forest to differentiate between blow and fall situations of head trauma
- Original Article
Johair Temma, Luísa Nogueira, Frederic Santos, Gerald Quatrehomme, Caroline Bernardi, Veronique Alunni
Evaluation of alcohol intoxication on primary and secondary haemostasis – results from comprehensive coagulation testing
- Open Access
- Original Article
Ronja Sabine Schmölders, Till Hoffmann, Derik Hermsen, Michael Bernhard, Fritz Boege, Michael Lau, Benno Hartung
A novel approach for estimating postmortem intervals under varying temperature conditions using pathology images and artificial intelligence models
- Original Article
Xinggong Liang, Mingyan Deng, Zhengyang Zhu, Wanqing Zhang, Yuqian Li, Jianliang Luo, Han Wang, Shuo Wu, Run Chen, Gongji Wang, Hao Wu, Chen Shen, Gengwang Hu, Kai Zhang, Qinru Sun, Zhenyuan Wang
Improving forensic healthcare: ARMED, a new telemedical examination
- Open Access
- Original Article
Yasmeen M. Taalab, Dorothea Kaufmann, Aysche Landmann, Emily Marie Ungermann, Sarah Heinze, Barbara Stöttner, Anastasia Tsaklakidis, Andreas Schroff, Florian Konrad, Alexander Mezger, Sophia Schlenzig, Robert Yen, Kathrin Yen
Development of artificial intelligence-based algorithms for the process of human identification through dental evidence
- Original Article
Cristiana Palmela Pereira, Raquel Carvalho, Diana Augusto, Tomás Almeida, Alexandre P. Francisco, Francisco Salvado e Silva, Rui Santos
Fatal gunshots in the Tri-City metropolitan area, Poland between 1998 and 2021
- Original Article
Karol Karnecki, Adrian Wrocławski, Michał Kaliszan, Tomasz Gos
Microbiota signature of the lung as the promising bioindicator for drowning diagnosis and postmortem submersion interval estimation
- Original Article
Kuo Zeng, Fu-Yuan Zhang, Ming-Zhe Wu, Hao-Miao Yuan, Shu-Kui Du, Jin-Cheng Ying, Yan Zhang, Lin-Lin Wang, Rui Zhao, Da-Wei Guan
From digital to physical model: the use of 3D-printed models in wound ballistic reconstruction
- Open Access
- Original Article
Fabiano Riva, Daan Wintermans, Stefan Schaufelbühl, Nadine Fuchs, Wim Kerkhoff
Post-mortem urine dipstick analysis for hyperglycemia and ketoacidosis: observer agreement and diagnostic value
- Open Access
- Original Article
Joanna M. Glengarry, Ben Thompson, Maria Pricone, Melanie S. Archer, Hans H. de Boer
Fatal anaphylactic shock due to hymenoptera venom in a farmer suffering from indolent systemic mastocytosis. The comparative diagnostic relevance of perimortem serum tryptase levels
- Open Access
- Case Report
Ugo Da Broi, Francesco Simonit, Maurizio Perogio, Daniela Visentini, Federico Reccardini, Rexson Tse, Jack Garland, Benjamin Ondruschka, Lorenzo Desinan
Exploring human hair degradation: A preliminary study for estimating time-since-death
- Open Access
- Review
Angela Silva-Bessa, Stuart Ramage, Maria Teresa Ferreira, Ricardo Jorge Dinis-Oliveira, Shari L. Forbes, Lorna Dawson
A multi-level overview of the hair decomposition process
- Review
Katarzyna Palacz-Ziółek, Monika Krzyżanowska, Marcin Kadej
From traditional to innovative: implications of cranial non-metric traits in personal identification
- Open Access
- Original Article
Andrea Palamenghi, Antonio Aragon-Molina, Giulia Caccia, Debora Mazzarelli, Sofia Alemanno, Ruggero Donida Labati, Fabio Scotti, Vincenzo Piuri, Carlo Pietro Campobasso, Cristina Cattaneo, Danilo De Angelis, Daniele Gibelli
Forensic facial reconstruction: A computer tomography study of facial soft tissue thickness in Nigerian adult male multi-ethnic population
- Open Access
- Original Article
Nurudeen Adegbite, Manuela Mura, Haliru Shafiu, Christopher Avery, Waqar Ahmed
Biological sex estimation in experimentally burnt patellae: exploring sexual dimorphism through comparative analysis
- Open Access
- Original Article
Beatriz Mouga Almeida, Filipa Cortesão Silva, Ana Luísa Santos
Terrain of taphonomy: how biogeographic variation affects decomposition and scavenger behaviour in two forensically significant habitats of Cape Town, South Africa
- Open Access
- Original Article
Kara Sierra Adams, Devin Alexander Finaughty, Victoria Elaine Gibbon
Correction to: With or without human interference for precise age estimation based on machine learning?
- Correction
Mengqi Han, Shaoyi Du, Yuyan Ge, Dong Zhang, Yuting Chi, Hong Long, Jing Yang, Yang Yang, Jingmin Xin, Teng Chen, Nanning Zheng, Yu-cheng Guo
