Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110503:17:36:00
What theyre talking about here is doing dna matching. so you and i, for example, randi, we share about 99.5% of our dna in common. that would take a long time to sequence. what they focus in on is whats different. so its a very -- much smaller area of the dna theyre sort of looking at, and trying to find, for example, this sample, where they think its osama bin laden, comparing it to reference samples of known relatives, for example. and seeing if there are matches. and that matching process, th...
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