• April 19, 2024

Human beings always leave a trace of us, whether by touching something, in the utensils we use to eat and in the clothes we wear, due to our DNA that is found in saliva or hair, but can this information be useful for the reconstruction of faces?

The American artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg He took advantage of this utility to recreate the faces of different people with the DNA that was found in chewing gum and cigarette butts thrown into the street.

The artist used special equipment to extract the DNA and reconstruct the faces of people she had never seen before, as explained in the following video below. program At the beginning of the day, of CadenaTres :

Dewey-Hagborg did his work in GenSpace , an open laboratory in Brooklyn. The DNA data was recorded in a computer program to convert them into a human digital face. The work of this artist called Strangers Visions It is exhibited in New York.

More on face reconstruction

It is not the first time that DNA is used for the reconstruction of faces, since in a study of the Erasmus University Medical Center, in Rotterdam , nine genetic facial factors were identified.

These keys include the position of cheekbones, eye distance, height, width and length of the nose. Even researchers say that it is possible to predict the color of eyes and hair with just a DNA analysis.

In the future, with these investigations you can use the reconstruction of faces with DNA to locate suspects of crimes with only a drop of blood, hair or saliva.

Video Medicine: FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION: BEFORE AND AFTER (April 2024).