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Detectives on television shows often spray crime scenes with a compound called luminol to make blood glow. Researchers have now applied the same compound to much smaller crime scenes: sites where the ...

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Set design’s loss may be criminal justice’s gain. A new technology may eventually replace luminol in detecting traces of blood. In films or television police procedurals, the detectives go in, spray ...

We’ve all seen an intrepid investigator spray down a crime scene with luminol and turn off the light, and a seemingly innocent room glows blue, illuminated by the leftover traces of gore. This is ...

St. Louis, March 20, 2009 — Detectives on television shows often spray crime scenes with a compound called luminol to make blood glow. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St.