Lancaster leads on pioneering hand identification research

(Lancaster University) New research led by Lancaster University will investigate what makes a person's hands unique and will call on 5,000 'citizen scientists' to contribute images to the world's first searchable database of the anatomy and variations of the human hand.The € 2.5 million project called H-Unique, funded by the European Research Council and in collaboration with the University of Dundee, will build on the ground-breaking research techniques pioneered by forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black.
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