Wanted: Commercially Viable Automated DNA Systems
Author: Roslyn Myers, J. D..
Source: Volume 15, Number 03, April/May 2014 , pp.35-35(1)
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Abstract:
The backlog of DNA evidence has become an increasingly nagging issue in the justice system and in American crime labs. At the end of 2009, there were over 110,000 unanalyzed cases, and trends suggest that the problem has only worsened.Keywords: Rape Kits; short tandem repeat (STR) analysis; nucleotides; microfluidic; machine-vision technologies with holographic optical trapping; human error
Affiliations:
1: John Jay College of Criminal Justice.