The series is noted for the use of recent forensic technology in Scarpetta's investigations.

We didn't have DNA and all that fancy forensic technology back then, so we had to rely on good old-fashioned police work.

As forensic technology improves, these traces will be easily found and recorded.

Bone fragments and blood spatters were found in the farm kitchen, although forensic technology was then insufficiently advanced to identify them.

But his novelist's instincts also provide the plot setbacks and corrosive humor that expose the scientific puffery of some forensic technology.

The other lesson is a bit more surprising: even in our age of astonishing forensic technology, murder by poison can still be a very difficult crime to uncover.

In addition, forensic technologies are working on identifying biological agents, their geographical origins and/or their initial son.

As technology improves and becomes more prevalent throughout society, people may also develop higher expectations for the capabilities of forensic technology.

But that has changed in the past decade thanks to more government support, advanced forensic technology and a growing genetic data bank from years of testing.

In fact the Federal Square computer center is on the pioneering edge of forensic technology.