Word: bloomings
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...Bloom says that regardless of the accuracy of DNA profiling, lawyers will always be able to dispute...
...profiling is the technique used to determine predispositions for cancer, Down's Syndrome and a variety of other diseases. But Bloom doesn't foresee this type of a database in the near future...
...loci of medical interest are where the DNA should be the same between everyone, only changing with disease," Bloom says. "Police are looking for the ones that change like mad, the parts that are known as 'junk DNA' by most scientists. The other part of the answer is that it's not cost effective to do millions of tests...
Kaye says that there is a big impact on the number of guilty pleas with DNA profiling. Also, Bloom says, "Eyewitnesses are not accurate. Eyewitnesses have testified that a given individual was the criminal and DNA tests have proven that individual could not have been the perpetrator...
Similarly, "lawyers understand that here is a remote possibility that some other gun fired a bullet," Bloom says. "But that realization doesn't stop them from using the ballistics report...