{"title":"Trends in forensic investigation of seminal fluid- a scoping review.","authors":"Megha Upadhyay, Pankaj Shrivastava, Kapil Verma, Bhawana Joshi","doi":"10.1007/s12024-025-01012-9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In sexual assault cases, semen is the most significant evidence for investigation. It can be recovered from either the victim or the crime scene. Additionally, semen can also be retrieved along with other body fluids, which makes it even more difficult to detect. The detection methods for semen are very wide, ranging from conventional destructive techniques to modern nondestructive techniques. The conventional techniques are reliable but have great disadvantages in terms of specificity and evidence integrity. This review highlights recent investigative techniques that are currently trending in the detection of semen. It provides a comprehensive analysis of various methods, including a comparative evaluation of their effectiveness. Additionally, the review summarizes the use of DNA markers as a detection strategy.</p>","PeriodicalId":12449,"journal":{"name":"Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-025-01012-9","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MEDICINE, LEGAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In sexual assault cases, semen is the most significant evidence for investigation. It can be recovered from either the victim or the crime scene. Additionally, semen can also be retrieved along with other body fluids, which makes it even more difficult to detect. The detection methods for semen are very wide, ranging from conventional destructive techniques to modern nondestructive techniques. The conventional techniques are reliable but have great disadvantages in terms of specificity and evidence integrity. This review highlights recent investigative techniques that are currently trending in the detection of semen. It provides a comprehensive analysis of various methods, including a comparative evaluation of their effectiveness. Additionally, the review summarizes the use of DNA markers as a detection strategy.
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Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology encompasses all aspects of modern day forensics, equally applying to children or adults, either living or the deceased. This includes forensic science, medicine, nursing, and pathology, as well as toxicology, human identification, mass disasters/mass war graves, profiling, imaging, policing, wound assessment, sexual assault, anthropology, archeology, forensic search, entomology, botany, biology, veterinary pathology, and DNA. Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology presents a balance of forensic research and reviews from around the world to reflect modern advances through peer-reviewed papers, short communications, meeting proceedings and case reports.
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