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Initiative to focus on development, manufacture, and validation of publicly available somatic reference samples.

Feeding first responders while his family business has been wiped out. that touched me. >> reporter: its amazing. >> im going with you. hes an extraordinary person. we wish him all the luck. thank you for bringing his story, my friend. were getting a clearer idea of the challenges ahead for storm victims and first responders. joining me is sarah burgess, public information officer for the kentucky state police. sarah, welcome to you. give me an update on what youre seeing and the stats you hav...

A gas form. and i do that by heating the sample up. the gas is then collected or absorbed into the charcoal strip. >> they analyzed the samples and compared them to a database of over 750 known reference samples. >> it is like a doctor looking at an ekg. i have to be able to visually recognize what it is that im looking at. the sample that was removed from threshold was positive for gasoline. >> now investigators wanted to know who was the last person inside anns home on the day of the fire. int...

>> well, its kind of leak that. we actually do have agencies throughout the country submitting samples to us, but what weve done since 2007 or 2008, we initiated some research where we were trying to look at modifications to the technologies, the process itself, and the review time. and really what weve done is with the goal of turning around samples in 60 to 90 minutes, our researchers and scientists have developed new procedures that allow us to push the samples through. and were doing it both...

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For example, thats going to be the closest because theyre going to share at least about 50% of the dna. with siblings that are full siblings, actual siblings, they could share up to 50% as well, but its a little less clear because parents dont always give the same amount of genetic material to each child or the same type of genetic material. with half-siblings it becomes even a little more complicated. but the thing is as you add more and more relatives, more and more reference samples to compar...

Qaeda leader. officials said the bin laden family dna was used to make the identification. it all sounds very "csi." left some people wondering can dna testing really be done so fast? chief medical correspondent and certified medical examiner dr. sanjay gupta joins me now. sanjay, i had no idea it could be done that fast. it seems like the government was able to confirm a match very, very quickly. >> yeah, you know, typically when youre talking about dna sequencing thats the process that can tak...

Able to confirm a match very, very quickly. >> yeah, you know, typically when youre talking about dna sequencing thats the process that can take a long time, really sequencing someones entire genome. this is different. what theyre doing here is theyre trying to actually look at -- trying to create a match here. so you know, if you look at most people, you know, we share about 99% of our dna. thats in common. so instead theyre focusing on areas that are different between people. if you have some ...

Do they need to run tests on all the samples simultaneously, or i assume they would have done that ahead of time and therefore just needed to compare the dna from bin laden to the samples they already had. >> thats exactly right. so essentially, if you have known samples from known siblings or known relatives of in this case the person, bin laden, you basically create reference samples. so you have all of those relatives or reference samples sort of lined up and then you bring in this new sample...