Geez

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instead of looking for an exact match or for a parent-child or sibling relationship, we can look for the most distant relationships, because in the end, we're all kind of one big genetic family.

I, I sometimes, uh, describe it as like a, like a human tapestry.

That's what our DNA is.

We're, like, all part of the same tapestry, and, and somehow we're all related to everyone.

We're one big family.

Mm-hmm

Is that true?

Yeah.

So you're, you're consuming evidence to, to develop a DNA extract.

And, um, and they had developed a few extracts, and they had one that had a lot of DNA.

It was, like, tons of DNA, and, and that DNA all ended up getting used without producing an answer.

And so this is one reason that, you know, I told you earlier, like, we're, we're really cautious about producing profiles, uh, with the least amount of, uh, evidence consumed possible because you don't know if it'll work.

It doesn't always work.

And I, I'm curious in this, in this world, this massive world where there are so many potential players, um, have you, have you been impressed by some of the people who just, you know, do this as a hobby and manage to crack cases along with people like you in your lab and your, your highly skilled scientists?