It will be a while before we see it in cases or in court, but antibody profiling appears on the distant horizon as a new identification method. I haven't seen any numbers yet. I have no idea as to relative uniqueness, but it certainly has some power to exclude.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24354674/
Images:
http://www.inl.gov/scienceandtechnology ... sensor.pdf
Since it is fundamentally a function of your exposures, it's akin to the relatively new hair testing for environmental components:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 213757.htm
And just because I ran across it, advances in field results of GSR testing:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 071744.htm
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