Pollen genetics can help with forensic investigations
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 06:21
in Biology & Nature
Imagine you're a detective working on a murder case. You have a body, but you believe it was moved from another location. Now what? There's one unexpected tool you might use to follow up on this suspicion: forensic palynology. That's the application of palynology – the study of pollen – to crime investigation.