Ramblings of an Anonymous Coward

You've Been Fingered

canadian scientists have developed a new technique for extracting dna from fingerprints left at a crime scene, even those smudged beyond recognition. the system takes only 15 minutes to extract and consistently yields 10 nanograms of dna.

Because the method is so simple and cheap, with far less overhead required than needle-based DNA sampling, experts say this could help make DNA gathering a commonplace activity -- thereby also raising privacy issues.

duh! doesn't take a expert to figure that one out. but i guess it is all inevitable and before long you'll be including dna sequence information in the personals or match.com profiles. wanted: female. likes sports and walks on the beach. chromosome 7 should have the following protein encoding...     arg!

Posted by ac at August 5, 2003 05:58 PM