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A new study published in Forensic Science International: Genetics, a journal, shows that volunteers who pretended to ransack houses in controlled tests could be identified from DNA pulled from the air 30 minutes after they scarpered. (Unsplash)

Burglars could be identified from airborne DNA

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BURGLARS HAVE been steadily running out of things they can safely leave behind at a crime scene. First came footprints, then fingerprints and stray fibres. Even microscopic strands of DNA left on tools and surfaces have been used to catch the incautious. Now they have something else to worry about: fragments of genetic material in…