Science news articles about 'fingerprinted'

  • Causes Of Disease Can Be Revealed By Metabolic Fingerprinting

    Your metabolic 'fingerprint' can reveal much about the possible causes of major diseases, according to the first 'metabolome ... of heart disease and stroke, by analysing the metabolic fingerprints of 4,630 adults in the UK, USA ...
  • Scientists identify genomic 'fingerprint' for alcohol-induced heart failure

    ... phases of reduced heart function,” she said. “With the fingerprinting or profiling that we now have at hand, we can begin to think ... early intervention. “Now that we have this diagnostic marker or fingerprint, clinicians will be better able to monitor the progress ...
  • DNA fingerprinting simplified

    ... forensic technique often used in genetic or DNA fingerprinting. The procedure is achieved by moving negatively charged ... using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and DNA fingerprinting.” The experiments outlined in the study provide students ...
  • First use of DNA fingerprinting to identify viable embryos

    ... Laboratories, Monash University, Australia, said: “DNA fingerprinting is the ultimate form of biological identification, but until ... affecting its viability and ability to implant; DNA fingerprinting is a very useful technique for discriminating between viable and non ...
  • New fingerprint breakthrough by forensic scientists

    ... have developed the method that enables scientists to 'visualise fingerprints' even after the print itself has been removed. They conducted ... could be reopened because with this method the only way to avoid a fingerprint being detected is through abrasive cleaning as that takes ...
  • Fingerprints recovered from bullets after firing

    Corrosion caused by sweat allows fingerprints to be detected on bullets after they have been fired
  • Lavas from Hawaiian volcano contain fingerprint of planetary formation

    ... of research," Dauphas said. "We can now use iron isotopes as fingerprints of magma formation and differentiation, which played a role ...
  • Fingerprints yield more telltale clues

    Scientists have found ways to tease even more clues out of fingerprints' telltale marks — one in a string of developments that gives ...
  • Fingerprints provide clues to more than just identity

    ... said. "By looking for compounds we know to be present in a certain fingerprint, we can separate it from the others and obtain a crystal clear image ... said. Software was used to map the information and create an image of the fingerprint from the distribution and intensity of selected ions. Additional ...
  • Fingerprint breakthrough hope in US double murder probe

    ... being reopened. The method enables scientists to 'visualise fingerprints' even after the print itself has been removed. They conducted ... 's pistol were recovered at the scene and have been processed for latent fingerprints using traditional methods of dusting and fuming with negative ...
  • 'Fingerprinting' Helps Make Great Grapes

    At about this time next year, nearly all of the 2,800 wild, rare and domesticated grapes in a unique northern California genebank will have had their "genetic profile" or "fingerprint" taken.
  • Fingerprint find in decade-old double murder probe

    ... 's pistol were recovered at the scene and have been processed for latent fingerprints using traditional methods of dusting and fuming with negative ... we have looked at where we have found points of identification on the enhanced fingerprint. Even if there is not enough points of identification to identify ...
  • New fingerprint method could unlock cold cases

    British scientists have developed a new crime-fighting technique that allows police to lift fingerprints from bullets even if a criminal has wiped down a shell casing.
  • 'Chemical fingerprint' to end art forgery

    A forensic scientist has developed an invisible 'chemical fingerprinting' technique that can be applied to both new and old paintings in order to stop art forgery.
  • Genetic Fingerprinting Enhanced - DNA May Even Tell Your Surname

    Scientists at the University of Leicester, where genetic 'fingerprinting' was invented by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys ...

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