title: Forensic biology: its past, present and future.
abstract: Forensic biology has reached an unprecedented prominence with the advent of DNA profiling, which allows the biologist to use microscopic evidence to match a person to a scene of crime. But there's a lot more in the forensic biologist's arsenal. Here we take a brief look at the who, when and how (and a little of the where to) of forensic biology.
authors.affiliation: University of Edinburgh.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jamieson
mesh_terms: D000886:Anthropometry; D001788:Blood Grouping and Crossmatching; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000032:analysis; D003878:Dermatoglyphics; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D010336:Pathology; D014116:Toxicology
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial