You may not recognize the name, but the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences is very well known to just about everyone.

"I think most people, when they think of the Medical Examiner's Office, they only consider our morgue services. In fact, we also have a full service crime laboratory," said supervisory forensic investigator Dan Morgan.

Last week, the former Harris County ME's Office was renamed to reflect its standing as a fully accredited forensic science and crime lab. While the work inside the building has not changed, it will give credit where credit is due to the team of forensic scientists who help shed light on death.

"We can look at things that the naked eye can't see, kind of like a microscope," said Rhonda Williams.

Williams is a DNA and trace collection analyst who uses science and technology to help make invisible evidence - visible.

She and her colleagues are part of the CSI generation, but the difference is their cases are not solved in an hour.

"I wish it was that easy, CSI is where you can just put (evidence) in an instrument and it gives you the picture - this is who did it. Unfortunately it's not like that," said Wendi Phelps, DNA and Trace Collection Analyst with the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.

The work is slower requiring hours of meticulous attention to detail. The county agency gets as many as 30 calls for service a day. They are asked to determine sudden cause of death for 80 different agencies and communities in Harris County that don't have their own crime labs.

"We get to see a lot of different cases, a lot of different natural disease, a lot of different forensic science, a lot of different evidence. Just the variety provides a lot of excitement during the day," said forensic photographer Francesca Daher.

It is a shared interest in death that binds the people behind the scenes as they solve crimes and determine sudden cause of death.

"Before forensic science was even a cool thing to do, I lived in California and I happen to find a deceased individual, I was 8-years-old and I thought it was fascinating," said Williams.

Still it's a tough job that comes with grieving families and grizzly crime scenes.

"You just have to learn to deal with it. You do have to be unbiased, especially in our reports when we are reporting the circumstances to the doctors," said lead forensic investigator Vanessa Trevino.

As a forensic team they are helping to solve cases that provide families with peace, put criminals behind bars, and give the deceased justice.