A recent study published in the journal Cell reveals that genes involved in limb development are influential in creating the shape of our fingerprints. Previously, researchers thought the genes ...

How those ridges spread from their starting sites — and merge — determines the overarching fingerprint shape. Fingerprints are unique and last for a lifetime. They’ve been used to identify ...

The arching, looping and whorling fingerprint shapes can be explained in part by a theory proposed by British mathematician Alan Turing. The differences in gene expression set up what’s known to ...

To engrave random wrinkling patterns on styrene–ethylene–butylene–styrene (SEBS) electronic skin, the researchers chemically ...

Fingerprint patterns are linked to limb development genes Date: January 6, 2022 Source: Cell Press Summary: In the most comprehensive analysis to date, researchers found that the shapes of ...

Early pioneers in the field of dermatoglyphics (the study of FRS patterns) demonstrated a strong correlation between the inheritance of fingerprint pattern and the overall size, shape and spacing ...

“Their argument that these shapes are somewhat correlated between fingers has been known from the early start of fingerprinting, when it was done manually, and it has been documented for years ...