UK: Fingerprint breakthrough offers new forensic evidence

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UK: Fingerprint breakthrough offers new forensic evidence (BBC News, link): "Tests detect substances a suspect has touched - Links 'key to forensic research' Australia fingerprints discovery. A technology to extract fingerprints from a crime scene could show if a criminal suspect has taken drugs or been in contact with explosives. Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University have developed a way to capture fingerprints that can identify substances touched, and secretions from a person's body."

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