Menstrual blood is regular discharge of blood and mucosal tissue (known as menses) from the inner lining of the uterus through the vagina. This process begins at what is known as menarche (first cycle ) which happens between 12 to 15 years in girls depending on a lot of factors. The process is known as […]
Forensic Biology & Serology
Blood – The Most Important Biological Fluid in Forensic Science
Blood is the fluid present in the humans as well as other animals responsible for transportation of all the necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. It is a dense connective tissue. Blood is one of the most important and most frequently […]
Short Tandem Repeats or STRs
Introduction Eukaryotic genomes are full of repeated DNA sequences . These repeated DNA sequences come in all types of sizes and are typically designated by the length of the core repeat unit and the number of contiguous repeat units or the overall length of the repeat region. 1. Long repeat units may contain several hundred […]