SocraticGadfly: Fingerprints 2.0 is coming

August 20, 2008

Fingerprints 2.0 is coming

Soon, relatively inexpensive mass spectrometry units could tell police (and doorknob knows who else, with BushCo’s Homeland Security) a lot more about your fingerprints.

Been using drugs? Handling TNT or guns? (Or, maybe, ammonium nitrate?) It could be detected.

R. Graham Cooks, a professor of chemistry at Purdue University, has shown how it could literally detect a fingerprint whorl of cocaine, for example.

But, it could have a more beneficial side.

The newer units could improve cancer detection, especially as an adjunct to other surgery.

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