Breakthrough machine now being used to upload genetic profiles onto database

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Breakthrough machine now being used to upload genetic profiles onto database

Revolutionary device used to speed up DNA profiling could soon be put in hands of custody suite personnel and other non specialists.

Date - 13th August 2015
By - Josh Loeb - Police Oracle

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The project to speed up genetic code profiling took another leap forward today as the company behind a pioneering device announced it had begun loading profiles onto the UK’s National DNA Database. The announcement by providers Key Forensic...

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