{"id":1931315,"date":"2023-05-15T23:10:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T03:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-researchers-collect-human-dna-in-air-while-studying-sea-turtles-suggests-new-discovery-could-help-solve-criminal-activity\/"},"modified":"2023-05-15T23:14:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T03:14:28","slug":"florida-researchers-collect-human-dna-in-air-while-studying-sea-turtles-suggests-new-discovery-could-help-solve-criminal-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-researchers-collect-human-dna-in-air-while-studying-sea-turtles-suggests-new-discovery-could-help-solve-criminal-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida scientists gather human DNA from air during sea turtle research, potentially aiding in crime solving."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-researchers-collect-human-dna-in-air-while-studying-sea-turtles-suggests-new-discovery-could-help-solve-criminal-activity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1931315&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Researchers Discover Human DNA Can Be Collected from the Air<\/h2>\n<h3>Could This Be the Key to Solving Crimes and Finding Missing Persons?<\/h3>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Florida have made an accidental discovery that could revolutionize criminal investigations and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-vs-taliban-missing-white-woman-syndrome-and-two-americas-vince-jason-save-the-nation\/\" title=\"Trump Vs Taliban, \u2018Missing White Woman Syndrome\u2019 And \u2026 Two Americas? | Vince &#038; Jason Save The Nation\">missing persons cases<\/a>. According to <i>Nature Ecology &#038; Evolution<\/i>, the team learned that human DNA samples can be collected from the air while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-researchers-collect-human-dna-in-air-while-studying-sea-turtles-suggests-new-discovery-could-help-solve-criminal-activity\/\" title=\"Florida scientists gather human DNA from air during sea turtle research, potentially aiding in crime solving.\">studying endangered sea turtles<\/a> and analyzing sand samples at a beach where the reptiles lay eggs.<\/p>\n<p>The team found human DNA everywhere they looked, except isolated islands and remote national parks. They even found samples near ocean and river waters surrounding the university\u2019s Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and Sea Turtle Hospital, as well as in the native land of the project&#8217;s lead, David Duffy, in Ireland.<\/p>\n<h3>The Ethical Dilemma<\/h3>\n<p>The discovery of gathering genetic information from a scoop of sand, a vial of water, or a person\u2019s breath presents ethical dilemmas that scientists and regulators could face about privacy and surveillance to data ownership. Duffy said that the quality of the DNA found is almost equivalent to if you took a sample from a person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s standard in science to make these sequences publicly available,\u201d Duffy said. \u201cBut that also means if you don\u2019t screen out human information, anyone can come along and harvest this information. That raises issues around consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Call for Consent and Privacy Measures<\/h3>\n<p>Now that human DNA can be found and readily sampled, Duffy urged lawmakers and the scientific communities to push for consent and privacy measures. \u201cAny time we make a technological advance, there are beneficial things that the technology can be used for and concerning things that the technology can be used for. It\u2019s no different here,\u201d Duffy said. \u201cThese are issues we are trying to raise early so policy makers and society have time to develop regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Takeaway<\/h3>\n<p>This discovery could be a game-changer for criminal investigations and missing persons cases, but it also raises important ethical questions about privacy and consent. As technology continues to advance, it&#8217;s crucial that lawmakers and society as a whole stay informed and proactive in developing regulations to protect individuals&#8217; rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Florida discovered that human DNA samples can be collected from the air, which could aid in solving criminal cases or finding missing persons. The discovery was made while studying endangered sea turtles and analyzing sand samples. The potential for fighting crime was reported in Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1931316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9682,6229,7204,12600,5113,6751,5576,11204,11487,10574,11315,26832],"class_list":["post-1931315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-aiding","tag-air","tag-crime","tag-dna","tag-florida","tag-gather","tag-human","tag-research","tag-scientists","tag-sea","tag-solving","tag-turtle"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}