Category: History of DNA
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A (Brief) History of DNA Profiling Exonerating the Innocent
Barry Scheck, the co-founder and co-director of the Innocence Project, headlines the project’s website: “We knew that this new DNA technology would not only prove people guilty, but also prove people innocent.” The establishment of CODIS made the DNA database national, which proved pivotal in clearing innocent, convicted people. In 1989, 2 years after Tommy…
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A (Brief) History of DNA Profiling Confirming Perpetrators
What is DNA profiling? DNA profiling (also termed DNA fingerprinting) is a procedure that aims to develop a DNA profile for a person by obtaining a unique DNA pattern from them. With over 99.1% of the DNA in the human genome shared by all humans, the variability in the remaining 0.9% of our DNA sequences…
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