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I'm pretty sure we are now just a couple of marketing cycles away from a version of this being re-packaged and sold to police departments around the world as a
by cstross 9y ago
I'm pretty sure we are now just a couple of marketing cycles away from a version of this being re-packaged and sold to police departments around the world as a tool for identifying suspects in a cloud database of DNA sequences belonging to People of Interest.
(You don't need a complete sequence for that, just enough unique markers to ID somebody.)
Goodbye "papers, please", hello "cheek swab, please".
- bayesian_horse 9y agoToo expensive with the current nanopore technology. And with any other technology, including a miniaturized PCR implementation, it would be too slow.
- jrm5100 9y agoThe forensic field moves very slowly in adopting new technology since they have to do a lot of re-validation every time anything changes. This idea already here, but with technology based on older/simpler methods. One example is Intigenx: https://integenx.com/rapidhit-system/ https://integenx.com/rapidhit-system/ The FBI has plans for implementing them: https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/fbis-plans-for-the-use-of-rapid-dna-technology-in-codis https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/fbis-plans-for-the-use-of.... The laws just need to catch up (or prevent it).