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What exactly is a "DNA marker"?
by feet 4y ago
What exactly is a "DNA marker"?
- yourapostasy 4y agoSynthetically-manufactured uniqely coded DNA that is sprayed onto perpetrators of a crime linking them from days to months to a location and/or property. An example of one of many companies in the space [1]. A search that opens up some rabbit holes [2]. More needs to be done in the space to develop it (there are several defeats I can think of as long as a perpetrator is aware such a system is in use), but it is still a promising channel to speed up investigation, indictment, prosecution, and sentencing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartWater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartWater [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=synthetic+DNA+forensic+property+marking https://www.google.com/search?q=synthetic+DNA+forensic+prope...