The inspectors amassed many samples of blood, urine, soil, air and water, as well as evidence about the type of projectiles used, including shell fragments and casings that retain the residue of deadly chemical compounds long after they have been detonated.
The science will improve as efforts like the Personal Genome Project amass huge samples, the price of sequencing sinks and biologists come to a better understanding of what genes do and why they vary.
As a result, some companies have amassed enough DNA samples that they can offer to help adoptees identify their kin, bringing hope to people born in an era when adoption records were routinely sealed, leaving few paper trails to follow.
Blumberg's was among the most massive: when we spoke, he guessed he'd amassed 450,000 blood samples during his career.
Fluent in the classic Boom Bap style of old school Hip Hop rhythms, Oddisee works from obscure samples amassed over years of curating records.
Spitzer's study, Arana noted in his article, was based on 200 interviews with so-called "ex-gay" patients, the largest sample amassed at that point.
As a part of the ongoing investigation of speciation in Midas cichlids, we have amassed genetic data from samples that were collected over the last 20 years.
The methods Dr. Crystal used to amass his language samples for analysis were sometimes quite different from those employed by, say, James Murray, who used an iron shed in his garden called the Scriptorium to store the slips of paper bearing sample sentences that would one day constitute the Oxford English Dictionary.
Chief among his duties as an electronic music producer, said Mr. Martinez, is collecting a palette of acoustic and electronic sounds from the library of digital samples he has amassed for Mr. Goldenthal to compose with on his own keyboards and computers.
Focusing on seven regions, the team amassed a collection of 725 samples from collaborators at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and elsewhere, as well as hundreds of samples of raw clay from various places.
