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General Science / Tsunami victim identification
« on: 09/01/2005 22:06:42 »
The Sunday Telegraph recently carried an article entitled
'Time is the big enemy' as scientists check the DNA of the dead (URL below) which suggested that time was running out to identify tsunami victims from DNA: "When bones age, they no longer yield the marrow needed for DNA identification."
If this is the case how are victims being identified from graves around Srebrenica where many of the corpses were exhumed years after their burial?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/09/wtsun09.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/01/09/ixnewstop.html
'Time is the big enemy' as scientists check the DNA of the dead (URL below) which suggested that time was running out to identify tsunami victims from DNA: "When bones age, they no longer yield the marrow needed for DNA identification."
If this is the case how are victims being identified from graves around Srebrenica where many of the corpses were exhumed years after their burial?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/09/wtsun09.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/01/09/ixnewstop.html