A bone sample the size of a thumb can yield mitochondrial DNA to link a man missing 60 years to a child in short pants.

Bode alone has been sent 12,000 bone samples, 5,500 soft tissue samples and 1,800 samples from family members.

Upstairs, I secured Savannah's remains in my evidence locker, and gave one set of bone samples to Denis, the histology technician.

Denis had prepared slides from the bone samples I'd brought from Raleigh.

The real stunner came last month, after bone samples were sent to the University of California at Riverside for radiocarbon dating.

The best-preserved charcoal and bone samples were identified by prescreening in the field and laboratory.

In the unfractured bone samples, gene expression was undetectable in the older rats for all of the measured genes shown in the Figures.

It was a simple procedure in which they'd take a bone sample from her hip.

The bone samples were taken from two individuals found at the Vindija cave site near the Croatian capital of Zagreb.

The test revealed large samples of lead concentration in Beethoven's bone sample, relative to a control.