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Crime Laboratory Improvement Program

NCJ Number
216279
Author(s)
Date Published
April 2005
Length
12 pages
Annotation
The Westchester County Forensic County Crime Laboratory used the funding from this grant to purchase an automated DNA extraction robot.
Abstract
Prior to this purchase, a very labor-intensive manual extraction protocol was used that limited analysts to processing no more than six samples at a time. The DNA extraction robot allows analysts to process as many as 48 samples at a time and has increased the number of specimens analyzed per hour from 4.16 to 24.89.

Date Published: April 1, 2005