Decius wrote:

Though she started this project in part to "open up the conversation about genetic surveillance," she says, it's taken on another purpose. Right now she's working with the Delaware medical examiner's office to try to identify a woman in a 20-year-old unsolved case by using some of the victim's remains to build a 3-D portrait of her. She's six weeks away from finishing the process, when investigators will, for the first time, have some idea of what the victim looked like before her death.

I think that this article brings up a great question for the future. As the technology of DNA sequencing gets cheaper and cheaper, how can we secure our genetic blueprint and privacy? The "technology" used in this article reminds me of the scene in Gattaca, where Uma Thurman steals a hair from her boyfriend and has it secretly sequenced (via a walkup bankteller type establishment) to ensure that he has a solid genetic background for breeding.

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