This project is carried out through a collaboration agreement with the Innsbruck Medical University, recognized for its work in human identification. Researchers from this institution trained Mexican scientists with the most advanced standards for the identification of bone remains.
“Today an important step is taken to guarantee the right to identity of the disappeared persons in Mexico,” said the undersecretary for Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior, Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez.
When inaugurating this space, the director of Inmegen, Luis Alonso Herrera, explained that the laboratory is the only one of its kind in the country and has state-of-the-art technology.
In response to a national demand, today in the #INMEGEN We inaugurated the Human Identification Laboratory, a space that brings together an interdisciplinary team that will put science at the service of society. pic.twitter.com/31EaJNUo5c
— INMEGEN Mexico (@INMEGEN)
January 31, 2023
In her participation, the head of the National Search Commission (CNB), Karla Quintana Osuna, assured that Mexico is the first country that assumes human identification as a matter of State, as also shown by the sampling days Genetic tests on relatives of disappeared persons carried out in various states.
the new laboratory
The Inmegen human identification laboratory has two areas. The first is for the analysis of complex or forensic samples, where bone samples that have undergone unknown degradation processes will be reviewed.
The second area is Nucleic Acids and will offer services to different institutions.
(Photo: Ministry of Health)
Its operation is in charge of Inmegen, the Ministry of Health and the Undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior.
