Press Releases

Achievement builds on Company’s forensic science laboratory’s accreditation scope and expands its accredited offerings into the Forensic Genetic Genealogy space. AUSTIN, TEXAS – February 25, 2025 – Signature Science’s Advanced Genomics Laboratory has been issued accreditation by ANAB, the ANSI National Accreditation Board, to the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 quality standard as... MORE

Contract reflects the continued expansion of the Texas-based forensic DNA laboratory’s participation in nationwide sexual assault kit backlog reduction efforts. AUSTIN, TEXAS – July 30, 2024– Signature Science, LLC has been awarded a one-year, $1.2 million contract from the city of San Jose, CA to perform forensic serology, screening, and... MORE

Signature Science Analysts Performed DNA Analysis and Provided Expert Witness Testimony. AUSTIN, TEXAS – May 28, 2024 – The Washington D.C. Superior Court has found a defendant guilty in connection with a fatal shooting that took place in October 2022, due in part to Signature Science’s DNA testing and expert... MORE

Award recognizes best paper by a woman or under-represented minority in science in each of Mary Ann Liebert Inc.’s 100 peer-reviewed journals. AUSTIN, TEXAS – August 22, 2023 – The Rosalind Franklin Society has awarded Michelle Peck of Signature Science, LLC with the RFS Award in Science for her team’s Internal... MORE

American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD) award recognizes exemplary method validation benefitting the forensic science casework practitioners. AUSTIN, TEXAS – May 18, 2023 – Signature Science, LLC is pleased to announce that the Forensic Research Committee of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD) has selected Michelle Peck... MORE

Award continues federally funded sexual assault kit backlog reduction effort AUSTIN, TEXAS – March 7, 2023 – Signature Science, LLC was awarded an 18-month, $1,108,934 contract from the Houston Forensic Science Center (HFSC) to perform forensic screening and DNA analysis of backlogged biological evidence associated with sexual assault kits (SAKs)... MORE

SigSci analysts will employ proprietary FRISC® method to extract DNA from spent shell casings AUSTIN, TEXAS – April 12, 2022 – Signature Science, LLC was selected by the Department of Forensic Science (DFS) in Washington, D.C. to perform DNA and serology testing on fired shell casings recovered from crime scenes.... MORE

New kit targets forensically relevant markers compatible with degraded and low-input DNA samples. AUSTIN, TEXAS – July 14, 2021 – Forensic scientists from the Center for Advanced Genomics (CAG) at Signature Science are validating the Verogen ForenSeq®Kintelligence workflow for the NDIS-approved MiSeq FGx® Sequencing System. ForenSeq Kintelligence, a new integrated forensic... MORE

AUSTIN, TEXAS – July 06, 2021 – Signature Science, LLC has received a one-year, $801,438 contract from the Houston Forensic Science Center (HFSC) to perform forensic DNA casework analysis services through May 2022. HFSC had previously contracted Signature Science in 2020 for similar services. Under the new contract, Signature Science... MORE

In partnership with the Institute for Forensic Research, Training and Innovation at Sam Houston State University, the Center for Advanced Genomics will guide leading-edge forensic science research. AUSTIN, TEXAS – November 03, 2020 – Signature Science LLC’s Center for Advanced Genomics has joined Sam Houston State University in a cooperative... MORE