{"id":166920,"date":"2023-07-05T19:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T00:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/human-hand-scents-a-novel-tool-for-sex-prediction"},"modified":"2023-07-05T19:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T00:22:22","slug":"human-hand-scents-a-novel-tool-for-sex-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/human-hand-scents-a-novel-tool-for-sex-prediction","title":{"rendered":"Human Hand Scents: A Novel Tool for Sex Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r8UymH07McM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>A new study reveals that the composition of scent compounds on a person\u2019s hand can accurately determine their sex.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis, using mass spectrometry, successfully predicted an individual\u2019s sex with an impressive accuracy rate of 96.67%. In criminal investigations, this could provide valuable trace evidence where other discriminative evidence like DNA is lacking.<\/p>\n<p>Further validation of these techniques could even reveal other individual characteristics such as age and racial or ethnic group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: A new study reveals that the composition of scent compounds on a person\u2019s hand can accurately determine their sex. The analysis, using mass spectrometry, successfully predicted an individual\u2019s sex with an impressive accuracy rate of 96.67%. In criminal investigations, this could provide valuable trace evidence where other discriminative evidence like DNA is lacking. Further [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}