[ExI] before?

[John Clark]

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 11:58 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:


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> For almost ten years now, a means has existed whereby gene sequencing can
> be done on a sampling basis, the way 23andMe and AncestryDNA are doing, for
> a cost of mid-two digit numbers.  Think how simple it would be for funeral
> homes to snip off a tiny piece of toenail, drop it in a ziplock and file it
> away
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​No need to wait till somebody is dead. A healthy human sheds about 10 skin
cells a second into the air each with a complete record of the person's
genome, ​if there was a few hundred dollar gadget that could recover those
airborne cells and sequence their DNA, and no doubt there will be in a few
years, then laws against the practice would be even less effective than
laws against marijuana use.

 John K Clark



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