Production of reagents for forensic DNA fingerprinting and relationship testing launched in Kaluga Region, Russia

KALUGA REGION, RUSSIA – OCTOBER 21, 2018: A worker in a lab at Nearmedic Pharma’s integrated works manufacturing reagents for forensic DNA fingerprinting and relationship testing at the Obninsk industrial park. The new products are to be used for forensic DNA fingerprinting in criminal investigations and DNA paternity testing, as well as in medical and genealogical research. In Russia, the major consumers of DNA analysis reagents are the Interior Ministry, the Investigative Committee, the Healthcare Ministry, the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Defence Ministry, and forensic laboratories. Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS (Photo by Anton NovoderezhkinTASS via Getty Images)