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Letter: Air DNA sampling, coming to a street near you soon?

Published 11 August 2021

From Adrian Bowyer, Foxham, Wiltshire, UK

You report that “monitoring wildlife… might be made easier and cheaper… [by] vacuuming bits of DNA out of the air” (31 July, p 16). Presumably, soon every CCTV camera will have an air sampler attached to detect our DNA. People walking past can expect to get everything from a text suggesting they visit a nearby shop to being arrested.

Issue no. 3347 published 14 August 2021

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