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DNA breakthrough could identify victims and provide suspect descriptions in current and unsolved cases

SUBSCRIBE 4th February 2022Sarah Gibbons, Contributing Editor, Policing Insight
A new DNA technique being pioneered by the Australian Federal Police uses Massively Parallel Sequencing to predict gender, age, eye colour, hair colour and bio-geographical ancestry – with new markers being identified for traits such as facial metrics or physical stature – in a breakthrough that could help investigators identify human remains as well as potential suspects, as Policing Insight Deputy Editor Sarah Gibbons reports.

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