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This probably won't help with the Sid Wilson process huh?
You realize that while bleach destroys DNA evidence, it also oxidizes metals quickly and in aggressive manner. In other words - you be caught through circumstantial evidence. (Why was this wood chipper bleached?) Just run some other small mammals through it and the contamination from numerous mammalian sources will be enough to confound any forensics lab. (Well there were indications of non plant DNA, but for all we know, a rat's nest was in a log and said animals were macerated during operation.)
Anyone else a little disturbed by this?
Anyone else a little disturbed by this?
You realize that while bleach destroys DNA evidence, it also oxidizes metals quickly and in aggressive manner. In other words - you be caught through circumstantial evidence. (Why was this wood chipper bleached?) Just run some other small mammals through it and the contamination from numerous mammalian sources will be enough to confound any forensics lab. (Well there were indications of non plant DNA, but for all we know, a rat's nest was in a log and said animals were macerated during operation.)
Anyone else a little disturbed by this?
Think of where I work.Anyone else a little disturbed by this?
That last part isn't helpingThink of where I work.
(Hint - Tier 1 Research Institute)
What I do.
(Code Monkey and Lab Manager)
I know my way around biology labs, because, well, I've run a couple. And the GD postdoc's pouring concentrated bleach in the sinks tic's me off to no end. I have to scrub the oxidation out every week. Otherwise Environmental Health Services brings it up and asks about our chemical disposal procedures (that the Postdocs are obviously not following). Eventually I will need to borrow businesslawyer's woodchipper, but I have lots of mammalian DNA in the freezer...