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Pollen genetics can help with forensic investigations

  • Written by Karen L. Bell, Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Sciences, Emory University
imageGenetic techniques can help make pollen useful for cracking criminal cases.Karen L. Bell, CC BY-ND

Imagine you’re a detective working on a murder case. You have a body, but you believe it was moved from another location. Now what? There’s one unexpected tool you might use to follow up on this suspicion: forensic palynology. That’s...

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