4 - The Future of Forensic Science

Every day, forensic science is advancing in new technologies that are used to help solve crimes. These new inventions or enhanced techniques are making it easier to figure out if someone was at the scene of the crime, or who murdered whom.
Some new technologies that have been improved or developed are fingerprint recovery methods from metals such as gun cartridges and bomb fragments, using the chemistry of colour to identify chemical and biological weapons, portable DNA profiling techniques that could be used at the scene of a crime, and more accurate ways of ascertaining the age at death of victims of crime. Also, years ago it took six to eight weeks to get a DNA sample back from the lab, slowing the whole case down greatly. But now it can take only one or two days, which is a great advancement. They have even built a machine that can extract fingerprints or trace off of dangerous or explosive material, without destroying the evidence. Before, there would have been no way to remove important evidence without risking someone else’s life.
The future of forensic science, as stated many times before, is always growing and uses large amounts of different pieces of technology. With such helpful and practical discoveries and inventions, it has made solving crimes so much easier, as well as excluding suspects and connecting people to the crime scenes. Without the technology used in forensic science, we would not be living in such a safe world we are today.