DNA evidence could soon tell cops your age, whether you smoke, and what you ate for breakfast

Forensic scientists and law enforcement agencies around the world think leveraging epigenetics could add key tools to the investigative arsenal. They’re working to develop methods that use this area of study to identify not only the tissue type that may have been left behind at a crime scene, but the age and lifestyle of the person who left it there.

Source: DNA evidence could soon tell cops your age, whether you smoke, and what you ate for breakfast