{"id":571,"date":"2009-08-18T00:04:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T04:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=571"},"modified":"2014-12-13T09:09:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T14:09:39","slug":"this-is-very-much-an-unwelcome-technical-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/this-is-very-much-an-unwelcome-technical-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"This is very much an unwelcome technical discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DNA evidence can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/18\/science\/18dna.html?_r=2&#038;hp\" target=\"_blank\">created to match a known profile<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility of what has been considered the gold standard of proof in criminal cases.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists fabricated blood and saliva samples containing DNA from a person other than the donor of the blood and saliva. They also showed that if they had access to a DNA profile in a database, they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can just engineer a crime scene,\u201d said Dan Frumkin, lead author of the paper, which has been published online by the journal <em>Forensic Science International: Genetics<\/em>. \u201cAny biology undergraduate could perform this.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/radleybalko\" target=\"_blank\">Radley Balko<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA evidence can be created to match a known profile: Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility of what has been considered the gold standard of proof in criminal cases. The scientists fabricated blood and saliva samples containing DNA from a person other than the donor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,15],"tags":[343,183,267,98],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-technology","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-dna","tag-justice","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29167,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/29167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}