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SARAJEVO, March 7 (FENA) - The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) today donated equipment to the Faculty of Science and Mathematics (PMF) of the University of Sarajevo, which will enable the establishment of a new DNA laboratory at the university.
The protocol on the donation of equipment was signed today in Sarajevo by ICMP Program Manager for Western Balkans Matthew Holliday and the Dean of PMF Mustafa Memić.
The equipment includes two DNA sequencing devices and computers for sequencing, pipettes which are necessary for the work in DNA laboratory, along with basic laboratory equipment and other items. ICMP has also provided the operating system and software needed for the functioning of the equipment.
“We are very grateful to ICMP for donating this significant equipment to us that will be used in the teaching process. The PMF has five departments, more than 200 employees, of whom there are about 120 scientists, professors and assistants, and more than two thousand students who work with this equipment,” said Dean Memić.
In this way, students will be able to get acquainted with the latest technologies in the field of molecular biology, and in addition to this, the PMF teaching staff will have at their disposal contemporary equipment for their scientific research.
During the process of reorganization of the laboratory system in BiH in 2016, Holliday said that ICMP donated strategic equipment to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Banja Luka.
“ICMP has been doing its best to ensure that the equipment is effectively used, as long as possible. The laboratory system was transferred to The Hague in 2017, allowing ICMP to begin using the next generation sequencing equipment, which is a DNA matching method that is substantially more precise than the system that was used up to that point.
The equipment that was donated today can still be used for extremely useful purposes and help in the development of molecular biology in BiH, as well as in the development of forensic science in the country,” said Holliday.
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