September 10, 1984: Alec Jeffreys Discovers DNA Fingerprinting
Even though DNA is 99.9% similar across the entire human population, a 34-year-old geneticist discovered how to take an impression of the .1% unique identifiers of a person’s DNA. It would change criminal investigations forever.
Today in True Crime · Parcast Network
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Even though DNA is 99.9% similar across the entire human population, a 34-year-old geneticist discovered how to take an impression of the .1% unique identifiers of a person’s DNA. It would change criminal investigations forever.
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