Suni Edson - Resolution for the Missing: Bringing Our Fallen Soldiers Home October 20, 2010

Have advances in DNA analysis made it so that our honored war dead will never again be labeled "unknown"? A senior DNA analyst from the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) shares her experiences working with scientists from Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command in positively identifying U.S. service members missing from past military conflicts. Suni Edson, assistant technical leader of the Mitochondrial DNA Section at AFDIL, will offer a rare look into the role DNA analysis plays in the process of scientific identification, and how advances in technology have increased the number of persons identified each year.