Forensic Services
Our clients can choose from a full range of detailed, thorough and affordable forensic DNA testing and consulting services.
As part of our consulting services, we painstakingly review the entire case file to include all items stemming from the original agency’s findings. A short list of items typically encompassed in the comprehensive review include:
- All scientific data
- Report review including bench notes
- Crime lab procedure manuals
- Autopsy reports
- Crime scene photos
- “Electronic data” generated by the crime lab’s instrumentation.
- Selection of physical evidence
- Serology and DNA analysis
- Statistical analysis
- Consultation and strategy formulation
- Trial preparation
- Expert testimony
Genetic Technologies, Inc. has the experience, advanced protocols, instrumentation, and chemistries allowing us the capability to extract, test, and resolve DNA profiles from a wide range of samples including highly degraded items:
- Tissue samples from autopsy and surgery
- Exhumed remains
- Touch DNA (gun triggers, knife handles, steering wheels…)
- Chewing gum and cigarette butts
- Kleenex tissues
- Toothbrushes
- Urine specimens
- Sexual assault kits
- Lick sealed envelopes and stamps
- Band aids
- Extracted teeth
- Eating utensils, bottles, cans, and cups
- Hair with roots
- Clothing items, hats, bed linen
- Scrapings from blood spatter
 Forensic DNA is used to test stains of body fluids on clothing, sheets, and other materials to determine the identity and/or sex of the person from whom a stain or substance originated, or to match a blood, saliva or semen stain to a person. The test can also identify individuals through DNA analysis of a sample of bone, tissue, teeth, fingernail scrapings and other biological material.
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Scientific Director
 Our Scientific Director is an FBI-trained DNA analyst and expert witness, with more than 25 years of experience in the forensic environment. Each member of our staff has extensive forensic and crime laboratory DNA analysis experience.
Genetic Technologies, Inc. has incorporated FBI protocols, and utilizes the same equipment and DNA systems as law enforcement laboratories. Thus, the DNA profile generated by Genetic Technologies, Inc. is compatible with the FBI's national database called CODIS (Combined DNA Index System).
Automobile Accident Reconstruction
 Certified accident reconstruction experts may add one more tool to their array of investigative techniques through the use of DNA. Genetic Technologies, Inc. uses DNA analysis to determine the occupants' positions within a vehicle (driver or passenger status) at the time of impact. By analyzing a deployed driver's airbag, we can often make such a determination. The force behind a deploying airbag delivers the "punch" necessary to generate and deposit DNA samples on the airbag in the form of nasal mucus, saliva, and / or blood.
The accident investigator merely needs to cut the stained section from the deployed airbag or seize the entire airbag and retain it as evidence until DNA analysis may be performed. Defense strategy in automobile accidents often revolves around the issue of who was operating the vehicle when the accident occurred. With DNA results to confirm the identity of the driver, the issue is no longer a point of contention.
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