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Bed bugs may be tracked using DNA

Biologist Toby Fountain is fascinated by bed bugs.He was originally intrigued by their "traumatic" reproductive behaviour; males injecting sperm directly into females' abdomens.

But Toby is now leading a study to find out why the infamous insects have spread so much in the last decade.

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