Tuesday, November 23, 2010

New Blood Test Can Determine Age















According to Comic Log at msnbc.com, crime investigators that have no more than a drop of blood can use it to find out the age of the person the blood is from. The blood does not have to be moist. It will even work on dry blood stains as well as those revealed by a heat-vision camera. "The molecules used are residues of the immune system known as sjTREC molecules. These special DNA molecules are released in blood cells as a result of the adaptations that have to be made by newly formed specific immune cells -- T cells -- to recognize bacteria, viruses, parasites or possibly cancer cells. Their number decreases with age," as reported by TG Daily Reports. This test will be very helpful on the search for criminals or missing people. I am suprised everyday to see what our scientists are able to do. They just keep finding more and more way to help,and this will hopefully help find lots of criminals.

3 comments:

  1. I found this article to be very interesting. I am amazed everyday with how far technology has come and what it has allowed us to do. Hopefully this will help us find more criminals and solve more crimes quicker and more accurately.

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  2. Very interesting article. Hopefully this will be helpful in catching criminals and finding missing persons.It is amazing what advancements in technology can do.

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  3. That's pretty amazing they can tell age now from just blood. Its definitely seems like it will be a huge help to find missing people or helping trace criminals.

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