1984
Medicine
Britain
DNA fingerprinting
Alec Jeffreys found individual-specific patterns in repeated DNA sequences.
Why it mattered
Transformed forensics, immigration cases and paternity testing.
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Alec Jeffreys found individual-specific patterns in repeated DNA sequences.
Why it mattered
Transformed forensics, immigration cases and paternity testing.
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