.jpg)
Professor Natalie Ram was quoted in "Arrests in Louvre Heist Show Power of DNA Databases in Solving Crimes" in The New York Times on Monday, Nov. 3. Ram is a leading scholar on the intersection of genetic privacy and the law.
It took less than a week for the police to track down two of the suspects who they say broke into the Louvre and made off with eight of France’s historic crown jewels. A third person, a suspected accomplice, was tracked down on Wednesday. In all three cases, DNA was an essential part of the search...