A New York City lab is using a new forensic technique to identify 9/11 victims’ remains
Scientists are using whole-genome sequencing and family-tree searches to identify remains, with 40% of Ground Zero victims still unidentified, officials said.
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‘Never giving up’: 25 years later, one lab is still identifying 9/11 victims
In August 2026, the 1,651st victim of the 9/11 attacks was identified by City of New York Office of Chief Medical Examiner, where a team of scientists, technologists and anthropologists that has been working all this time to find, identify and return remains of victims to their loved ones.
A New York City lab is using a new forensic technique to identify 9/11 victims’ remains
Forty per cent of the 2,753 people who died at Ground Zero on 9/11 have not had their remains identified, including approximately 10 of the 24 Canadian victims. Last month, the lab announced it made its first identification of previously unknown remains using a breakthrough technique.
September 11th marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A quarter of a century later, the work of the New York City Office of Forensic Medicine (OCME) continues. For 25 years, forensic personnel have used DNA analysis and constantly updated forensic techniques to try to confirm the identities of the victims at the World Trade Center, bringing answers to more families of the victims.
More than a thousand victims of the terrorist attack at the World Trade Center remain unidentified. A quarter of a century later, work continues to be done to identify all those who died and return them to their families.
Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, New York City still has not been able to name all of its dead. Just weeks before the anniversary, medical examiners announced they had identified another woman who died in the collapse of the World Trade Center. She is only the 1,654th identified among the 2,753 victims in New York City. The remaining 1,099 - a full 40 percent - remain without individual identification a quarter century after one…
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