(CNN) “Do you think that every fingerprint is actually unique?”It’s a question that a professor asked Gabe Guo during a casual chat while he<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/are-fingerprints-unique-not-really-ai-based-study-finds/">Read More</a>
Fingerprints have long been used as the "gold standard" for forensic analysis and criminal investigations, as prints of different fingers from the same person – also known.
“The most immediate application is it can help generate new leads for cold cases, where the fingerprints left at the crime scene are from different fingers than those on file,” a Columbia University student said.