New bullet tagging technology now makes it harder for criminals who use firearms. Nanotags, which are only 30 microns in diameter and invisible to the naked eye, are designed to be coated onto gun cartridges and attach themselves to the hands of the person handling the cartridge. This means that a link between the cartridge fired during the crime and the person who handled it.
This new technology can lead to a major increase in successful convictions. The tags are made up of a number of oxides to enable a connection between the cartridge and its user. The technology is designed so the DNA is not damaged in any way and it is also inexpensive.
This breakthrough was achieved by a team of engineers, chemists, scientist, and nanotechnologists from Brighten, Brunel, and York Universities.
The tagging be available for use in less than a year and scientists are trying to apply the tagging to other fields, such as knife crime.
3 comments:
I think this article is well represented because Geena did a great job at discussing the new bullet tagging technology and giving the reader a well understanding, also she explained how it could benefit the forensic field and how exactly and who it was achieved by. he only thing i would recommend to make it better would be to maybe explain how they came about this and write about how they are trying to include it into knife crimes.
This is a very well done. i like how you incorporated so much information on this new advancement in technology. the fact that it showed how it could help forensic scientist is amazing.
the one thing that could help if she just posted the link of the site she got this from. very well done.
I thought this was an interesting article, that addressed this groundbreaking technology of bullet tagging . I liked how she told the reader that this is a realistic idea, because of its cheap cost. This definitely sounds like it has great potential in the field of forensic science. Overall, this was a good article, but what could be included would be a description of the process used to match the bullet with its user, and how reliable it is.
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