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Re:New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DN... by greedo on Friday September 27, 2019 @08:50AM (#21091315)
There was a murder in Nebraska where crime scene was liberally cleaned with bleach to obliterate DNA evidence. Still no conviction despite a lot of circumstantial evidence. This was partially compounded by older DNA technology that destroyed the sample while processing it.
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Re:New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DN... by inetknght on Friday September 27, 2019 @10:20AM (#21092272)
> This was partially compounded by older DNA technology that destroyed the sample while processing it.

Can you point to current DNA tech which doesn't destroy the sample while processing it?

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Re:New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DN... by brokenmachine on Monday September 30, 2019 @12:01AM (#21111684)
For PCR you only need a super-tiny bit, then you can amplify it as much as you want. I guess you're still technically destroying that tiny bit, but it hardly makes a difference when you only need a few molecules.
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