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Drug driving test at your fingertips

A fingerprint is all you need to determine whether someone is under the influence of drugs.

Paul Yates from Intelligent Fingerprinting, a company spun out from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, and colleagues (including CHE's Professor David Russell), have developed a handheld device that police can use to detect breakdown products from drugs excreted through sweat pores in the fingertips.

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