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2006-03-29 | ||
The medical examiner's office will determine whether the newest remains are human and then try to match them to existing DNA profiles, Borakove said. The remains were found by crews cleaning the building before construction workers begin dismantling it in June. "If the DNA extracted doesn't have enough points to match to a person, it's a partial identification, but we're doing a lot of things to try to generate new technology to identify people with a partial DNA profile," Borakove said. Recovering the remains of victims of the attacks has been a slow process, and identifying victims from tiny fragments such as bone shards has not always been possible. Borakove said the medical examiner's office has identified partial remains from 1,595 people of the 2,749 killed. Some 9,720 unidentified bone and tissue fragments have been sealed and stored in case developments in technology make identification possible in the future, officials have said. | ||
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