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They tested 60 fish samples in the city using DNA identification.
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About 9, 000 human remains recovered from the ruins of the World Trade Center remain unidentified because they are too degraded to match victims by DNA identification.
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We're looking here, potentially, at DNA-based biological identification.
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Dubbed the Next Generation Identification (NGI) program, the high-tech endeavor uses biometric data such as DNA analysis, iris scans and voice identification to track down folks with a criminal history.
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For molecular diagnostic tests Beckman Coulter has developed a nucleic-acid- sample detection instrument that separates fluorescent-dye-labeled DNA fragments for pattern recognition or further identification.
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In April 2005, the city's chief medical examiner, Charles Hirsch, told families his office would be suspending identification efforts because it had exhausted the limits of DNA technology.
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The remains have been subjected to a battery of tests, including DNA, carbon dating and environmental analysis in an effort to confirm the identification.
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Meanwhile, officials say they plan to collect DNA samples from some bodies and body parts recovered from the wreckage, for identification purposes.
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"ICMP's involvement in Katrina victim identification efforts will be limited to the profiling of bone samples for DNA, " the commission said in a statement posted on its Web site.
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