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Mass Spectrometry Being Studied as Way to Analyze Overlapping or Weak Fingerprints
Loaded on Feb. 1, 2025
by Anthony Accurso
published in Criminal Legal News
February, 2025, page 39
Filed under:
Forensic Sciences,
Fingerprint Evidence,
Latent Fingerprint Evidence.
Location:
United States of America.
by Anthony W. Accurso
Desorption electrospray ionization, a type of mass spectrometry (“DESI-MS”), is being studied as a way to analyze overlapping or weak fingerprints, solving an age-old problem of evidence quality.
For over a century since Scotland Yard established its first Fingerprint Bureau, the issues of overlapping or weak ...
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