John Jay College Forensic Science Lab Tour

Forensic science is the application of the natural sciences to matters of legal concern. Forensic scientists work on both civil and criminal cases and because the application of forensic science spans a broad spectrum of scientific knowledge, most are specialists in a particular area of science or technology. Some of these specialties include anthropology, criminalistics, engineering, molecular biology, pathology, toxicology, and other areas. Scientific problem solving is a key component unifying all of these areas.
The Department of Sciences at John Jay College maintains a number of state-of-the-art facilities for research and teaching. Notable among these are the following laboratories:

-DNA Analysis Laboratory – John Jay College operates one of the leading research laboratories for forensic DNA analysis.

-Trace Mercury Laboratory – John Jay College operates a state-of-the art facility for trace mercury research.

-Trace Element/ICP-MS Laboratory – John Jay College operates a cutting-edge laboratory for elemental analysis. This laboratory also has the capability to do speciation analysis facilitated by chromatography separation coupled with Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) detection.