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Fluorescent Fingerprint Tag IDs ‘Hidden’ Prints

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LEICESTER, England, July 3, 2013 — Criminals might want to think twice before touching anything, now that a new fluorescent tagging technique could yield higher-confidence identifications from latent fingerprints on metal surfaces. When your finger touches a surface, it leaves behind deposits of sweat and natural oils in a pattern mirroring the ridges and troughs found on your fingers. The odds that any two people have identical fingerprints are 64 billion to 1, making them an ideal tool for identification in criminal investigations. The greatest source of fingerprint forensic evidence comes from fingerprints not...Read full article

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    Published: July 2013
    electrochromic polymersEnglandEuropefingerprint identificationfingerprint patternfluorescent taggingfluorophoresILLImagingInstitut Laue-LangevinISISlatent fingerprintsLeicestershire PoliceMax SkodaMicroscopyneutronsResearch & TechnologyRob BarkerRobert HillmanRoger BannisterScience and Technology Facilities CouncilSTFCUniversity of Leicester

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