Forensic serology, applications

From what has been learned over the past year during this assessment phase, The Aerospace Corporation and its subcontractors will be concentrating now on the development of better blood identification methodologies. Improved immunological and electrophoretic methods, as well as combinations of these and other new methods, are being explored for application to the forensic serology problem. Other new blood systems with even higher discrimination capabilities are known but have yet to be adapted for use with dried blood. 

In a previous review on the applications of isoelectric focusing in forensic serology by Murch and Budowle ULPAGIF for typing the... 

Widely used fiuorophore. Finds use in microscopy, as a laser dye in forensics and serology to detect latent blood stains, and in dye tracing. When substituted with reactive groups can be used to covalently label proteins. The excitation maximum (494 nm) is conveniently close to the spectral line of the argon-ion laser (488 nm) which makes fiuorescein an important fiuorophore for confocal scanning laser microscopy [123]. A common donor for FRET applications. 

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