DNA From Bone Bits May ID Train Dead Using 9/11 Experience
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Advances in forensic science since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks may help Canadian authorities identify the remains of dozens of people killed in what may be the country’s worst rail accident in more than 100 years.
Even tiny shards of bone may be helpful to scientists, said Mark Desire, assistant director of the DNA World Trade Center Identification Project in New York, which is still working to identify thousands of skeletal fragments. His agency tests each piece multiple times and is devising new methods to access DNA in the cells so it can return the remains to the families.