At 07:50 PM 1/28/03 +, Ken Brown wrote:
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Think - you are a suspect. They find 2 human DNA signals at the scene of
the crime, one from you, one from someone quite different from you.
Well, they can look for the other guy in their own time, but they've
got you. If they are using a stringent
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> Get some scurf from expensive D.C. restaurants. PCRAmplify it up if you
And be sure to open it -only- at the crime scene. If the investigator
could grab a sample of the same mix of DNA at some other location that the
suspect visits then they'd h
At 07:50 PM 1/28/03 +, Ken Brown wrote:
>Thomas Shaddack wrote:
>
>> But now how to avoid leaving random DNA traces? What about giving up
on
>> NOT leaving traces and rather just use eg. a spray with hydrolyzed
DNA
>> from multiple people, preferably with different racial origin,
Get some scur
Thomas Shaddack wrote:
> But now how to avoid leaving random DNA traces? What about giving up on
> NOT leaving traces and rather just use eg. a spray with hydrolyzed DNA
> from multiple people, preferably with different racial origin, thus still
> leaving fragments like hair or skin cells, but con
> Thomas Shaddack[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>
> Watching local TV, a police brass with three stars is talking about DNA
> evidence.
>
> Losing samples of DNA is quite inavoidable; hair falls out, skin peels,
> all you need to get for positive identification is one single cell.
[...]
Go and watc
At 07:13 PM 1/28/2003 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
>But now how to avoid leaving random DNA traces? What about giving up on
>NOT leaving traces and rather just use eg. a spray with hydrolyzed DNA
>from multiple people, preferably with different racial origin, thus still
>leaving fragments like hai
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
> Watching local TV, a police brass with three stars is talking about DNA
> (Using deeper-penetrating techniques it should be possible to do things
> like permanently change skin color, eg. by disabling or stimulating
> melanine production, or even achie
Watching local TV, a police brass with three stars is talking about DNA
evidence.
Losing samples of DNA is quite inavoidable; hair falls out, skin peels,
all you need to get for positive identification is one single cell.
After collecting the sample, you amplify it (create much more DNA
molecules