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PARIS The traces of genetic material that humans constantly shed wherever they go could soon be used to track individual people, or even whole ethnic groups, scientists said on Monday, warning of a looming “ethical quagmire”. A recently developed technique can glean a huge amount of information from tiny samples of genetic material called environmental DNA, or eDNA, that
PARIS: The traces of genetic material that humans constantly shed wherever they go could soon be used to track individual people, or even whole ethnic groups, scientists said on Monday (May 15), warning of a looming "ethical quagmire". A recently developed technique can glean a huge amount of information f
Every skin flake, hair follicle, eyelash, and spit drop cast from your body contains instructions written in a chemical code, one that is unique to you.