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...missing, and compare it to their own postmortem findings from victims' bodies, clothing and personal effects. All bodies are photographed, X-rayed and visually examined; some undergo a full autopsy. The most reliable clues to a dead person's identity are known as primary criteria - fingerprints, dental records, DNA or implanted medical devices marked with a serial number. DNA matching is the gold standard; it requires comparison between DNA from human remains and that found, say, on a hairbrush or toothbrush belonging to the missing person, or with a close relative's DNA. The family of a woman still missing...
...English, as Orwell once observed, celebrate their freedom in small ways: gardening, sports, pets, pubs, stamps, crossword puzzles. Part of this is now patriotic mythology. But part is also the enculturated national DNA to see these things not as trivial but as integral to the life of a free people. These things didn't stop, even during the Blitz, when thousands lived through night after night with the prospect of being incinerated by bombs from the sky. Part of fighting the war, the Brits realized, was military. But part was also a refusal to change a way of life, however...
...future, the software could be used to develop a DNA biobank, Weiss said—although he acknowledged that this is many years and logistical hurdles away...
...clairvoyant, but it’s not inconceivable that big DNA banks could become a thing of the future,” Weiss said...
...early 1500s. But Kerchner, 60, says he will not rest until he finds a German ancestral village where he can sit down someday and have a beer--hopefully with a local member of his clan. Having exhausted the paper trail, he says, "my only hope left is DNA testing...