The results are published in the journal Advanced Science and the new technique could potentially be used for crime solving.

In research published in Advanced Science, investigators describe their ability to reconstruct 3D facial images from DNA data, which could have important applications in forensic investigations of ...

Encoded within this DNA ... nucleotides that were arranged in a spiral shape called a helix. Around the same time, researchers James Watson and Francis Crick were pursuing a definitive model ...

"By examining the DNA organization in the 3D space, we uncovered hubs where multiple genetic regions that look like they should be disconnected are actually able to communicate and work together ...

Their model, called Difface, applies single DNA nucleotide differences to 3D facial point clouds, or sets of data points that represent the exterior surface of a face. When tested on a Han Chinese ...