Rapid DNA’ Promises Breakthroughs in Solving Crimes
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Community Community ICAI Doha Urdu poets Chapter enthral P7 organises P16 audience seminar on during the 60th cybersecurity at anniversary poetry Hotel Crowne Plaza symposium by — The Business Park. Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar. Monday, September 30, 2019 Safar 1, 1441 AH Doha today: 320 - 370 COVER Magic device STORY ‘Rapid DNA’ promises breakthroughs in solving crimes. So why does it face a backlash? P4-5 QUIZ SHOWBIZ Gandhi’s words resonate It’s a good time for more today than ever before. actors, says Sonal. Page 10 Page 14 2 GULF TIMES Monday, September 30, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.07am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.25am Zuhr (noon) 11.24am Asr (afternoon) 2.49pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.23pm Isha (night) 6.53pm USEFUL NUMBERS Cold Blood Legacy edge of a lake. One day, an injured woman arrives in front of DIRECTION: Fredéeic Petitjean his house. CAST: Jean Reno, Sarah Lind, Joe Anderson To save her, he could well risk his own life. 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E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Monday, September 30, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY In the fast lane The printer-sized boxes can analyse a sample of blood, saliva or other biological matter in about 90 minutes, and they have a number of potential applications, writes Maura Dolan, of a device called ‘Rapid DNA’ THE DEVICE: A DNA readout on a Thermo Fisher RapidHIT 200 Rapid DNA machine in Santa Ana. or decades, scientists have used Science Commission.” But we have to be there is a mixture of DNA from multiple ever-improving DNA forensics sure that any technology is ready for prime individuals, said Vincent A Figarelli, to help solve crimes and detect time and is reliable and that the people superintendent of Arizona’s Crime suspects in cold cases such as who are using it are trained.” Laboratory System. In those situations, the Golden State Killer. But it Two companies dominate the US a trained forensic scientist is needed to There is no question Fhas never been quick work: Laboratory market for Rapid DNA, Colorado-based interpret it. analyses of genetic evidence can take ANDE and Massachusetts-based Thermo “Mixture interpretation is the most that getting faster weeks, even months to complete. Fisher Scientifi c. They stand to capitalise diffi cult thing that crime laboratory DNA results is good That could all change, if private on the mushrooming demands for DNA analysts have to do by far,” Figarelli said. companies succeed in widely marketing a analysis, and both are seeking to change “There’s no way you want a Rapid DNA for everyone in the device called “Rapid DNA.” state and federal laws so they can expand operator doing a mixture analysis.” The printer-sized boxes — costing up to use of their machines. Another concern is that police might criminal justice $250,000 apiece — can analyse a sample of In California, Contra Costa, Sacramento consume an entire genetic sample while blood, saliva or other biological matter in and Orange counties have acquired the conducting a Rapid DNA test, leaving system. But we have about 90 minutes, and they have a number devices, and both the Los Angeles Police nothing for an accredited laboratory or the to be sure that any of potential applications. A machine Department and the Los Angeles County defence in future court proceedings. developed by Colorado-based ANDE Sheriff ’s Department are trying to do so, In Kentucky — where it is a felony to ‘technology is reliable Corporation helped identify victims of as part of an FBI pilot project. Proponents completely consume a DNA crime scene the 2018 Paradise fi re and the more recent say Rapid DNA would allow offi cers to sample — ANDE and Thermo Fisher last Conception dive boat disaster. more quickly identify a serial rapist or year approached state law enforcement, But it is the prospective use of Rapid even a murderer, preventing suspects from misrepresenting their products’ — Lynn Garcia, general DNA in criminal investigations that slipping from their grasp. immediate potential, said Laura Sudkamp, counsel of the Texas is setting off alarm bells. Both privacy In June, US Immigration and Customs director of the state police forensic advocates and some forensic scientists Enforcement issued a $5.2 million contract laboratory. Forensic Science fear police will abuse the technology to one Rapid DNA company to determine “I jumped all over them,” Sudkamp said. to test people without their informed familial relationships of migrants at the “They were not telling the truth.” Commission consent, or to mishandle evidence that border and to deter fraud and human Ron O’Brien, a spokesman for Thermo could compromise prosecutions. traffi cking. Fisher, said the company was unaware “There is no question that getting faster There is no question the devices of any employees improperly promoting DNA results is good for everyone in the work well on “single-source DNA,” the product in Kentucky.