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Published online 23 April 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030421-2

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World Trade Centre forensics break new ground

Attempts to identify 9/11 victims are pushing DNA fingerprinting forward.

Nineteen months after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the effort to identify victims' remains goes on. Forensic scientists working on the project are being forced to break new ground.

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