How Australian police will use DNA sequencing to predict what suspects look like
by Donna Lu from Science | The Guardian on (#5SSMR)
Technology a gamechanger' for forensic science but raises privacy and racial profiling issues
Australian federal police have announced they are using next-generation DNA sequencing technology to predict the physical appearance of potential suspects.
Based on DNA left at a crime scene, the technology - also known as massively parallel sequencing - can predict externally visible characteristics of a person even in the absence of matching profiles in police databases.
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