Artist Creates Portraits From People's DNA. Scientists Say 'That's Impossible'

Heather Dewey-Hagborg, a doctoral student in information art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., was collecting stray hair and cigarette butts that people left behind and extracting DNA from them. Then she was creating portraits of the people who had left their genetic information behind.

forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/05/31/turning-found-dna-into-portraits-what-an-imagination