EVIDENCE & FORENSICS
Facial Reconstruction
from DNA
Examine even the smallest of details
Sirchie's new system for the examination, comparison, capture, annotation,
and documentation of evidence: the new FOCOS2 - Dual Camera Forensic
Optical Comparison/Examination System, consists of two 8 MP cameras with
white, 455 nm blue, and 395 nm long-wave UV lights integrated and mounted
on moveable arms to a base platform. Its proprietary software was designed
in partnership with CSIpix to work in conjunction with a stylus-based screen
monitor to make case documentation simple and easy.
This configuration gives users the ability to examine the minute details of
evidence ranging from fingerprints, tool marks, bullet casings and trace evidence to footwear, tire marks, and other large pieces of evidence.
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Law Enforcement Technology
July 2013
ÒDewey-HagborgÕs odd habit has a
larger purpose. The 30-year-old PhD student, studying electronic arts at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York,
extracts DNA from each piece of evidence she collects, focusing on specific
genomic regions from her samples. She
then sequences these regions and enters
this data into a computer program, which
churns out a model of the face of the person who left the hair, fingernail, cigarette
or gum behind.Ó
"Creepy or Cool? Portraits Derived From the DNA in
Hair Gum Found in Public Places"
Read more: blogs.smithsonianmag.com/
artscience/2013/05/creepy-or-cool-portraits-derivedfrom-the-dna-in-hair-and-gum-found-in-publicplaces/#ixzz2Xo09nxGV
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