Warnex has agreed to buy Molecular World, a laboratory located in Thunder Bay, Ontario that specialises in human DNA identification, including forensic DNA testing.
Molecular World offers services in all four DNA technologies required for human identification: autosomal nuclear (STR), miniSTR, Y-STR and mitochondrial DNA.
Mitochondrial DNA testing is crucial in cases where nuclear DNA testing is not possible, such as shed hairs at crime scenes, identification of missing persons (skeletal remains with degraded DNA), and when there is insufficient nuclear DNA.
Molecular World has the contamination-control facilities to perform mitochondrial DNA testing.
Molecular World is also accredited by the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) as a DNA-testing laboratory for forensics, parentage and other familial relationships.
