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Forensics: inside the bone lab

Image credit: Nick Cubbin/Australian Geographic

The NSW Health Pathology’s Forensic and Analytical Science Service (FASS) recently launched a specialist mitochondrial DNA facility. Very old human remains, previously too decomposed to contain useful DNA, can now be identified using new techniques.

Read the full story in #127 of Australian Geographic

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