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Vietnam Aches for Its M.I.A.’s. Will America Stop Funding Science to Identify Them?

4 juillet 2025 à 05:00
New breakthroughs in DNA analysis offer a chance to identify more of the lost from wars and disasters stretching back decades — if the U.S. helps.

Filling in the grave of an unidentified soldier after bone samples were collected at Tra Linh Cemetery in northern Vietnam.

How New DNA Science Could Help More Families of the Missing

4 juillet 2025 à 05:00
Emerging methods are improving the ability to identify even highly degraded human remains.

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Researchers processing bone samples from an unidentified soldier missing in action collected at Tra Linh Cemetery in northern Vietnam, for DNA testing at the Center for DNA Identification at the Institute of Biotechnology of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • U.S. Leaves Vietnam’s War Dead Unidentified
    Damien Cave, the Vietnam bureau chief for The New York Times, takes us to a cemetery in northern Vietnam, where scientists are using innovative DNA analysis techniques to match unidentified Vietnamese soldiers with their living relatives before U.S.A.I.D. cuts defund the program.
     

U.S. Leaves Vietnam’s War Dead Unidentified

4 juillet 2025 à 05:00
Damien Cave, the Vietnam bureau chief for The New York Times, takes us to a cemetery in northern Vietnam, where scientists are using innovative DNA analysis techniques to match unidentified Vietnamese soldiers with their living relatives before U.S.A.I.D. cuts defund the program.
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