dna fingerprinting

The World’s Smallest Crime Lab

An ant-size microwave cooks DNA to catch crooks

The latest in space-saving kitchen technology wont pop your popcorn, but it could help nab criminals. A new micro-microwave, smaller than an ant, can heat pinhead-size drops of liquid to precise temperatures—critical for the kind of lab-on-a-chip devices investigators could someday use in the field for biological analyses such as DNA fingerprinting.

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