{
  "id": 14703149,
  "title": "Finding new ways to catch a thief—via intruders' airborne eDNA",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/finding-new-ways-to-catch-a-thief-via-intruders-airborne-edna",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-15T13:00:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-ways-thief-intruders-airborne-edna.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Environmental DNA (eDNA) is increasingly being investigated by forensic scientists as a tool to help solve criminal cases that lack biological traces—and attention is also turning to collecting trace airborne eDNA left behind by intruders in residential burglaries.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}