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"We've done tests and it's human, and apparently...our lab technician." Wasn't there a case of a lady being implicated in thousands of crimes based on DNA evid
by astrodust 11y ago
"We've done tests and it's human, and apparently...our lab technician."
Wasn't there a case of a lady being implicated in thousands of crimes based on DNA evidence because of contaminating the samples she was working with?
- sndean 11y agoThere's a lot of stories like that caused by sloppiness. If you blast (https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?PAGE_TYPE=BlastSearch https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?PAGE_TYPE=BlastSear...) the sequence of essentially every organism with a sequenced genome, you'll find long stretches of the human genome. Even worse are the genomes coming out of one specific lab... there are always stretches of the Chlamydia genome. I wonder if that tech knows?