What police can learn about you from the skin chemicals on your cell phone

Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 15:01 in Health & Medicine

Police might one day be able to size up the habits and lifestyles of crime victims and suspects by analyzing the skin chemicals they leave behind when they touch their cellphones. In a proof-of-concept study released Monday, UC San Diego researchers recovered and processed enough of these chemicals...

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