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Published online 5 September 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010906-14
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Computer helps police face facts
Morphing programs could help put a face on a crime suspect.
Face-morphing computer programs could transform how police develop pictures of crime suspects, their creators told the British Association for the Advancement of Science's Annual Festival of Science on Tuesday. One of the programs has already aided investigations into a sexual-assault case in Northamptonshire.
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