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Interlaboratory Comparison of SpermX™ and Conventional Differential Extractions Indicated High Male DNA Recovery by the SpermX Method

  • Joanne B. Sgueglia,
  • Hailey Holt,
  • Erin Hanson,
  • Justina Nichols,
  • Tim Kalafut,
  • Mah-ro Khan,
  • Thomas Walsh,
  • Megan Foley,
  • Hiromi Brown and
  • Jack Ballantyne
  • + 1 author

1 December 2023

The National Institute of Justice reported that current methods for processing sexual assault samples have a high failure rate, with 60 to 80 percent of tested kits unable to produce usable DNA profiles. Even when samples test positive for male DNA,...