The Methods Of Detecting Nucleic Acids

[amyi]

http://www.wikigenes.org/e/pub/e/592.html
I've finished an article on this topic,but my professor said it should be modified.So I'm here to ask for all kinds of answers on this topic.Thanks!

[Colmc54]

If you ram-raid an ATM you are stupid or then again not. All the cash in it is DNA sprayed apparently, and will possibly lead an unavoidable path back to you.

Of course your perfect crime will depend on the willingness of society to fund the laboratories that will track you down and the legal parasites that will explore every possible way of getting you off.

DNA forensics is therefore both a symbol of Homo sapiens intellectual achievements and of our failure to understand how primitive we may always remain.

Our genetic 'code' doesn't begin to describe us, as your professor should know. All it does is perpetuate a lineage of primates.

I could murder my next-door neighbour later today and my legal team would tell me I was only guilty of having a 'psychotic episode'. I would be detained for a while in a suitably secure facility but my legal team would brief me, with the help of sympathetic psychiatrists, on how to persuade everyone I was no longer a threat to society and I'd soon be free.

DNA in other words is an enablement technology that cannot withstand exposure to that more significant perhaps non-DNA encoded aspect of humanity.

It, like all the incredible discoveries of science, cannot as yet withstand the two primordial traits of humanity namely greed and selfishness.

[theprof]

If all your prof told you was that the article should be modified, I'm horrified. As I've said before, a US professor can have substantially less academic experience and knowledge than similar academics in the UK and Europe. Captious comments are not very useful to the student and I would have expected your professor to have pointed you in the right direction regarding this topic.

Yes, there are some fundamental changes that I would suggest to your article Amyi, but I can't possibly go through them one by one on AB as the system wouldn't allow it apart from needing multiple posts due to the complexity of the topic. If you feel you need answers, you need to go through the article yourself again minutely and hopefully, you'll pick up the flaws. Try running it past another of your teachers and take on board the constructive criticism they should provide.

[theprof]

I remain a visiting professor of biochemistry in almost all the present US Ivy League Universities and spend some weeks in the States every year so I do sympathize with your problem.

[Colmc54]

In the last paragraph you mention 'alternative methods for detecting nucleic acids'. What are they, do they exist, and if they do would they do any better or just cost more?