Portrait Sculptures From Genetic Material

I notice that they took these samples from cigarettes and chewing gum. Seems to me that if you leave something like that in a public space, there's no privacy concern.

Lifting off of a used glass/hair follicle/sweaty towel at the gym/etc. would be a bit more worrying.

But since a person's features are more than their base structure, it's probably not too big an issue anyway. It's highly unlikely that they'll be able to model exactly what a person looks like at their current age/health.

This method could definitely help with missing persons issues though, as an adult model could be created based on a child's DNA that would look "similar" to the actual person.

I'd be interested if two runs on DNA samples from the same person would turn out faces that look the same....

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