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Modeling Suspects' Faces Using DNA From Crime Scenes
Modeling Suspects' Faces Using DNA From Crime Scenes
"The idea of Snapshot is to give investigators a new way to use DNA"
This winter, a biotechnology company began offering a whole new service to police departments. Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs' Snapshot service allows police to send Parabon NanoLabs DNA samples taken from crime scenes. From that DNA, the company reconstructs a guess of what the person's face looks like.
More from Popular Science:
http://www.popsci.com/new-service-reverse-engineers-faces-dna-samples-crime-scenes?src=SOC&dom=gp
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