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Faster DNA Testing

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the sorry-sir-i-need-to-stick-you-again dept.

tkjtkj writes "Physorg.com is reporting that a Rochester,NY, company, 'Thermal Gradients, Inc' has produced a new method of DNA analysis that can reduce the required time from hours to minutes that the usual 'Polymerase Chain Reacion' (PCR) takes to produce the large quantity of sample DNA needed to identify the donor. This could,conceivably, make "Instant DNA Identification" a reality! Will air travel now require one to arrive at the airport 5 minutes earlier than usual, to provide a skin-swab sample before boarding the plane?"

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  1. Swim time is over! by cdtoad · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You! Outta the gene pool!!!!

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    when they ban enctryption only criminals wi$21*J *#JF$%!@#$':
  2. Hey, is that your soap on the floor? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you posting from prison?

  3. you forgot French by digitaldc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and Insurgent

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    He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
  4. Weird by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's bizarrely unsettling how you managed to keep leaving prepositions out of your sentences.

  5. Yes by paranode · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And that's when it's time to call Jude Law.

  6. Kyle says by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You tongue-kiss your Mom? Sick, dude!

  7. Re:Only 5 minutes?? by FarHat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What if its a woman? What if she has 5 types of semen inside her?

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    At the intersection of computation and biology.