DNA idenitikit

This is pretty extraordinary.

I wonder if it becomes a viable technique, will court-cases just be a formality? It's got to be the ultimate slam-dunk. Very minority report.


Well, there goes my elaborate murdering scheme...(sigh)

Maybe I'll be able to get the deposit back on the van.

Total Recall for total real

Now my paranoid rants will seem even more plausible:

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US researchers have said they are able to selectively erase memories from mice in a laboratory, raising hopes human memory afflictions like post-traumatic stress syndrome can one day be cured.

"Targeted memory erasure is no longer limited to the realm of science fiction," the research team headed by Joe Tsien, from the Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute at the Medical College of Georgia, said in Thursday's issue of Cell Press magazine.

The new technique, which the team stress is at a very early stage, could be applied one day to the human brain to erase traumatic memories or deep-set fears, and leave all other memories unaffected.

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Tsien said the technique might one day be applied to war veterans who "often suffer from reoccurring traumatic memory replays after returning home."

...or to those who know too much