Re:Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B
by shrubble on Thursday August 06, 2020 @03:42PM
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Question: do the hacker/home-DNA labs allow for the ability to take someone's DNA, amplify or recreate it, then allow you to smear it on a jacket or a dead person's cheek, thereby framing an innocent person?
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Re:Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B
by t-c-h on Thursday August 06, 2020 @05:07PM
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They would need to purify the DNA (remove all other amino acids and membrane proteins etc.) to amplify it and remove any traces of chemicals used for the amplification.
But A) naked DNA will be exposed to the elements/chemicals which could cause damage/denaturation, B) it would look really odd to find batches of pure DNA without any hairs/cells/other proteins.
Maybe some techniques exist to replicate more believable tissue? Honestly not sure as I'm not too well versed on lab-techniques other than sequencing.
Re:Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B
by Metacelsus on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:54AM
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Methylation analysis could tell them apart, since DNA from PCR isn't methylated. But most forensic labs wouldn't do this, and I think it would be very possible to frame someone in this way.