The company, which has worked on 10 cases, can create a visual profile by identifying traits like hair, eye and skin color. The challenge faced by geneticists today is finding efficient ways to reliably identify a greater number of physical traits that would lead to a more precise illustration of the person whose DNA is being analyzed.
How are some police stations using DNA to solve crimes?
Answer: through mail-order phenotyping
A biotech company called Parabon NanoLabs allows police stations to create basic 3-D models of what a suspect might look like based on DNA found at a crime scene.
The company, which has worked on 10 cases, can create a visual profile by identifying traits like hair, eye and skin color. The challenge faced by geneticists today is finding efficient ways to reliably identify a greater number of physical traits that would lead to a more precise illustration of the person whose DNA is being analyzed.
The company, which has worked on 10 cases, can create a visual profile by identifying traits like hair, eye and skin color. The challenge faced by geneticists today is finding efficient ways to reliably identify a greater number of physical traits that would lead to a more precise illustration of the person whose DNA is being analyzed.
