China is using DNA samples to try to re-create the faces of Uighurs The news: Chinese researchers are using blood taken from Uighurs to try to work out how to use a DNA sample to re-create an image of a person’s face, according to an investigation by the New York Times. The samples are being gathered in Tumxuk, a city in China’s Xinjiang region, where a million or more ethnic Uighurs, a persecuted
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