Blood will out

Developing of foot print on place of bloody crime under ultra violet black light

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Antimalarial drug boosts luminol’s power 100,000-fold

An antimalarial drug and a smartphone could soon be added to the tool bag of crime scene investigators searching for tell-tale bloodstains. Chinese researchers have discovered that combining the drug with the chemical used by crime scene investigators to reveal bloodstains increases the test’s sensitivity by several orders of magnitude enabling even trace amounts of blood to be revealed.