#dna-analysis

#dna-analysis

Nearly 25 years after the disaster at the World Trade Center, our commitment to identify the missing and return them to their loved ones stands as strong as ever, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Graham said.

The pain of losing a loved one in the September 11th terror attacks echoes across the decades, but with these three new identifications, we take a step forward in comforting the family members still aching from that day.

"This indicates greater diversity in skin pigmentation than we previously thought," said Maïté Rivollat, chief geneticist of the project, highlighting unexpected findings on skin color variations.

The San Mateo County Coroner's Office has finally identified remains found in 1985 as belonging to Brian Edward Jones, missing since December 1984.

"It has been confirmed that the body part found in the school yard did originate from the male youth injured in the explosion the previous evening."

Through advancements in forensic genealogy, the remains of two unidentified bodies found in the North Bay in 1998 have finally been named after 27 years.

Miguel Lorente, a forensic scientist who led the research, said on Thursday: 'Today it has been possible to verify it with new technologies, so that the previous partial theory that the remains of Seville belong to Christopher Columbus has been definitively confirmed.'