(Philadelphia, PA - May 2002) In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the National Justice Department sent out a plea for new technologies that could assist in the investigation at Ground Zero. How two Denver scientists stepped up to the challenge with a new approach to speed DNA identification at this and other disaster sites is the focus of an article by contributing writer, Kelli A. Miller, in the current edition of The Scientist, "Identifying Those Remembered" (June 10, 2002).
Phil Danielson, an assistant professor of molecular biology at the University of Denver, and his laboratory assistant Robby Shelton, a pre-med student, identified a technology that cuts down the DNA analysis time from days to minutes, reduces costs from $2,500 to $10 per sample and decreases the forensic sample needed by 99.5%.
In a pilot study, Danielson and Shelton demonstrated that WAVE profiling, one of the most effective ...
