On this episode of the Inside the FBI Podcast, we'll meet the Bureau’s Federal DNA Database Unit, a supergroup of laboratory and biometric support experts tasked with ensuring that federally collected DNA samples make it into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). We’ll explain how the unit creates the genetic profiles that power CODIS, discuss how they recently overcame a historic processing backlog, and find out what’s next for the team. For a full transcript and additional resources, visit fbi.gov/podcasts.

You can also visit fbi.gov/lab to learn more about the FBI Laboratory—one of the largest and most comprehensive crime labs in the world—and how it helps the Bureau solve cases and prevent acts of crime and terror.

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