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Day in Tech History: September 10, 1984: First Genetic Fingerprinting Discovered


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1984 – Alex Jeffreys of Leicester, England noticed and deduced that DNA (http://www.geekazine.com/tag/dna)is a unique item from person to person and could possibly be used to identify someone. Hence, Genetic Fingerprinting was born. Alex was originally working on a way to determine heredity of illnesses when he made this discovery.
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