<p>Researchers from the University of Florida said a new accidental discovery could help solve criminal activity or find missing persons after learning investigators could collect human DNA samples from the air.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02056-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution,</a> researchers learned the potential source for fighting crime while studying endangered sea turtles and analyzing sand samples at a beach where the reptiles lay eggs.</p>
<p>&#8220;We cough, spit, shed and flush our DNA into all of these places and countless more,&#8221; the university&#8217;s team said in a <a href="https://news.ufl.edu/2023/05/human-dna-everywhere-ethics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.</p>
<p>David Duffy, the UF professor of wildlife disease genomics who led the project, said the discovery of gathering genetic information from a scoop of sand, a vial of water, or a person&#8217;s breath presents ethical dilemmas that scientists and regulators could face about privacy and surveillance to data ownership.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been consistently surprised throughout this project at how much human DNA we find and the quality of that DNA,&#8221; Duffy said. &#8220;In most cases, the quality is almost equivalent to if you took a sample from a person.&#8221;</p>
<p>Researchers said they collected human DNA everywhere they looked, except isolated islands and remote national parks. The team found samples near ocean and river waters surrounding the university&#8217;s Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and Sea Turtle Hospital. Duffy said even as far as his native land of Ireland.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s standard in science to make these sequences publicly available,&#8221; Duffy said. &#8220;But that also means if you don&#8217;t screen out human information, anyone can come along and harvest this information. That raises issues around consent.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now that human DNA could be found and readily sampled, Duffy urged lawmakers and the scientific communities to push for consent and privacy measures.</p>
<p>&#8220;Any time we make a technological advance, there are beneficial things that the technology can be used for and concerning things that the technology can be used for. It&#8217;s no different here,&#8221; Duffy said. &#8220;These are issues we are trying to raise early so policy makers and society have time to develop regulations.&#8221;</p>

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