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Nature Chemistry (31 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/nchem.83

Forensic detection: Fingerprints fixed

Stephen Davey

As a method of detection, fingerprint analysis has a long history, but there is a constant demand for new techniques for print enhancement and imaging; prints left on certain materials are difficult to detect and in some cases the evidence can be easily destroyed. Now, Paul Kelly and co-workers from Loughborough University have followed up a serendipitous discovery that points to a new method of fingerprint detection.