What would you say about a technology that helps law enforcement officers track suspects with near-100% certainty on the basis of their racial characteristics? Brilliant? Maybe not, according to some of America's colleagues-at-law.
For a lot of people, any chance that police officers get to narrow down their list of suspects in an effort to nail the culprit would be a welcome improvement in forensics. But for the man behind this latest bit of progress in genetic applications, it's highly frustrating, and not merely because many people don't think that his science is up to snuff: the company that he founded may face closure if his novel genetic technique is not more widely called upon to help investigators gather clues about the culprits, because until the time that the drug that he has pioneered passes FDA approval, the company needs to stay afloat and is pinning its hopes on crime investigators using its often-misunderstood technology to identify clues about the identity of the criminal.
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Thats a nice article but there was no light thrown on how it is (technically) possible 2 shortlist the suspects using Frudakis technique..Or am i missing 2 understand despite of being explained?
ReplyDeleteWelcome to my blog, Ponnarasi. I think you'll find the answer here: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/dnaprint?currentPage=2
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