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The killer made just one fatal mistake…
Yet again, we turn to New Scientist for the stories that we couldn’t make up. This week: forensic scientists are developing a method for working out your surname from your DNA. Presumably unable to manipulate the little strings to spell the word, they are instead going on the assumption that men inherit their surname from their fathers along with their Y chromosome, so matching the Y chromosome gives a name to look for. This leaves only two ways for the master criminal to escape surname discovery by the gene police. The first one is to change his name. The second is to be a woman. It just might work.
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