15 Oct 2019

NZ crime-busting software cracking global crimes

From Nine To Noon, 9:40 am on 15 October 2019
Dr Jo  Bright is co-developer of STRmix™ and Senior Science Leader at ESR

Dr Jo Bright is co-developer of STRmix™ and Senior Science Leader at ESR Photo: ESR

Used by the FBI among others, STRmix™ is helping to crack many crimes that were previously thought to be too complex to solve using DNA evidence. The sophisticated forensic software  has been used successfully in numerous U.S. court cases, including 28 successful admissibility hearings.

Internationally, STRmix™ has been used to interpret DNA evidence in more than 100,000 cases since 2012. ESR scientists, John Buckleton and Jo-anne Bright together with Duncan Taylor from Forensic Science South Australia developed STRmix™ in 2009. Kathryn Ryan talks to Jo-anne Bright about the impressive results.