* China's Xinhua news agency reported in March that the police
department in Nanjing has gone beyond fingerprints and now has a
data bank of smells taken from criminals and crime scenes to aid
police dogs in investigations. Officials say that storing the scents
at minus-18 degrees (C) retards degradation for at least three years,
and already, they say, the bank of 500 odors has led to the
identification of 23 suspects. [BBC News, 3-16-06]
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