The field of forensic botany is being advanced with the publication of two recent studies that use marijuana DNA to link drug supplies and pollen DNA to aid in forensic investigations. Sam Houston ...

Moss is ancient. It evolved some 470 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur hatched. It is so rudimentary that it ...

Mark Spencer has something of an usual job – he’s a Forensic Botanist who works with police and forensic departments on cases where an extensive knowledge of plants is key to the investigation.

Tiny moss plants are emerging as powerful forensic tools, offering crucial clues about the time and location of crimes. Their ...

Forensic botany has traditionally focused on flowering plants and pollen, while bryophytes have received little systematic attention despite their ubiquity, persistence, and distinctive morphological ...

2.5.2016 Denver7 Kyle Horan explains how two University of Colorado Boulder professors hope to help investigators around the world with a new forensic plant science book, Week 16 Data Dump: QBs, RBs, ...

Moss may look insignificant, but it can carry a hidden forensic fingerprint. Because different moss species thrive in very ...

DAVIE | They stand silent in a Davie backyard, but police think they help tell the story of how a retiree was killed and his body parts scattered across South Florida. The witnesses' names: Schefflera ...

Tony Brown:I extract the pollen and spores from suspect vehicles or from suspect clothing. My job is basically to provide a match or to disprove a match to a particular crime scene." Robyn Williams: ...

In an article published in the International Journal of Legal Medicine, faculty and students from the Department of Forensic Science report that they developed a test to individualize samples of ...