A paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has demonstrated that identifiable human DNA can be recovered from samples of environmental substrates such as water and air, raising ethical implications, according to IFL Science.
Identifiable human DNA can be recovered from the environment
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
