Exploring nanopore direct sequencing performance of forensic STRs, SNPs, InDels, and DNA methylation markers in a single assay.

Introduction: The field of forensic DNA analysis has undergone rapid advancements in recent decades. The integration of massively parallel sequencing (MPS) has notably expanded the forensic toolkit, moving beyond identity matching to predicting phenotypic traits and biogeographical ancestry. This shift is of particular significance in cases where conventional DNA profiling fails to identify a single suspect.

The politics of face and the trouble with race: Exploring relations at the interface between the individual and the collective in forensic practice.

This special issue interrogates race through the lens of face. Its central faces are those in forensic settings. Promising immediate legibility and access to the individual suspect, forensic faces nevertheless mobilize a variety of collectives.

Curious about race: Generous methods and modes of knowing in practice.

What is race? And how does it figure in different scientific practices? To answer these questions, I suggest that we need to know race differently. Rather than defining race or looking for one conclusive answer to what it is, I propose methods that are open-ended, that allow us to follow race around, while remaining curious as to what it is. I suggest that we pursue .

Tentacular Faces: Race and the Return of the Phenotype in Forensic Identification.

The face, just like DNA, is taken to represent a unique individual. This article proposes to move beyond this representational model and to attend to the work that a face can . I introduce the concept of to capture the multiple works accomplished by the face.

The high-profile case as 'fire object': Following the Marianne Vaatstra murder case through the media.

In 1999 a girl named Marianne Vaatstra was found murdered in a rural area in the Netherlands. In 2012 the perpetrator was arrested. Throughout this period as well as thereafter, the Vaatstra case was never far removed from media attention and public debate.

[Forensic assessments from the Netherlands Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology in retrospect; applications of genetics and neuroscience, in 2000 and 2009].

Background: Developments in neurosciences and genetics are relevant for forensic psychiatry.

Aim: To find out whether and how genetic and neuroscientific applications are being used in forensic psychiatric assessments, and, if they are, to estimate to what extent new applications will fit in with these uses.

Method: We analysed 60 forensic psychiatric assessments from the Netherlands Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, Pieter Baan Center, and 30 non-clinical assessments from 2000 and 2009.

Silent witness, articulate collective: DNA evidence and the inference of visible traits.

DNA profiling is a well-established technology for use in the criminal justice system, both in courtrooms and elsewhere. The fact that DNA profiles are based on non-coding DNA and do not reveal details about the physical appearance of an individual has contributed to the acceptability of this type of evidence. Its success in criminal investigation, combined with major innovations in the field of genetics, have contributed to a change of role for this type of evidence.

First characterization in Tunisia of a TEM-15, extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate.

Klebsiella pneumoniae CH0905 strain exhibiting high-level cefotaxime resistance was isolated from a stool culture in the intensive care unit. The resistance gene responsible was shown to be located on a conjugative 60-kb plasmid designated pCH0905. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values for cefotaxime and ceftazidime of the original isolate and the transconjugates were 256 mug/ml.

Cefotaxime and ceftazidime-resistant Escherichia coli isolate producing TEM-15 beta-lactamase from a Tunisian hospital.

A clinical isolate of Escherichia coli LBT04 was found to have a high-level resistance to broad-spectrum beta-lactams. Analysis of this strain by the disk diffusion test revealed synergies between clavulanic acid and ceftazidime, cefotaxime. Clavulanic acid decreased the MICs of ceftazidime, cefotaxime, and ceftriaxone, which suggested that LBT04 produced an extended-spectrum beta-lactamase.

Cloning and sequencing of the class A beta-lactamase gene (blaTEM-15) located on a chromosomal Tn801 transposon.

Escherichia coli CA0210 was identified in a stool culture of a 03-month-neonate in Tunisia. This strain was resistant to beta-lactams, including ureidopenicillins, ticarcillin-clavulanic acid, cefpirome, ceftazidime, and cefotaxime, but it remained susceptible to imipenem and cefoxitin. The beta-lactam-hydrolyzing beta-lactamase gene of E.