Annals of science: Israeli dog police use DNA to bust poop violators

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Unsightly public piles of dog feces have been a problem for as long as man and dog have lived together in cities. Like most places, the Israeli city of Petah Tikva requires dog owners to clean up after their pets -- but how to track down violators based only on the, er, evidence left behind? The solution: create a database of doggy DNA, and cross-index it against the foul deposits left at the scene of the crime. Read more...

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