The Australian Federal Police (AFP) are using a groundbreaking tech that will grant the ability to predict traits of criminals solely from DNA left at a crime scene when no matching records are found. The AFP will be the first Australian law enforcement agency to use the new technology, allowing for crime scene analysts to narrow down individuals by looking at unchangeable qualities found in DNA—including gender, biogeographical ancestry, eye colour, and, soon, hair colour. The technique, known as Massively Parallel Sequencing (MPS), became commercially available in 2005 and garnered significant traction over the last decade in forensics due to its ability to rapidly crack degraded DNA samples, or even samples containing multiple contributors. Most importantly, while traditional DNA profiling only serves to compare two samples for a match, MPS will allow police to develop a general picture of persons of interest in order to help identify perpetrators based on …