article_snippet: Scientists believe that DNA evidence found at a crime scene could in the future be used to create mugshots of criminal suspects.
article_snippet: This is one potential use to emerge from a new research paper - Modeling 3D Facial Shape From DNA - published on last year in Plos Genetics.
article_snippet: In the article, a team of scientists explained how a team of scientists were able to produce crude 3D models of faces simply from people's DNA samples.
article_snippet: We show that facial variation with regard to sex, ancestry, and genes can be systematically studied with We methods, allowing We to lay the foundation for predictive modeling of faces,’ the researchers wrote.
article_snippet: It’s good the DNA has been collected.
highlights_snippet: DNA reconstruction usually requires the exhumation of remains .
  
highlights_snippet: But this technique could now help when cases have gone cold .