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Mass. crime lab still lags in DNA testing
Boston :: MA :: USA | 1 day ago
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The Massachusetts State Police crime laboratory still lags in testing DNA samples connected to crimes, despite a critical report two years ago that led to the firing of some high-ranking lab employees. The lab came under fire when it was revealed that...
Tags: Boston, Genetics, Scattering, DNA, Diffraction, Biometrics, Helices, Law Crime
New federal law will prohibit discrimination in hiring and health insurance based on genetics and family history
Fort Worth :: TX :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Janet Cunningham has a strong family history of ovarian and breast cancer, and her sister has already tested positive for the genetic marker that puts her at heightened risk for the disease. Now Cunningham wants to know whether she, too, has the marker.
Tags: Janet Cunningham, genetic test, federal law, Linda Robinson, family medical, medical history, family history, Fort Worth, Health Medical Pharma, Medical tests, Genetics, Ovarian cancer, Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, Genetic counseling, Social Issues, Breast cancer, Genetic testing, Cancer
World authority on cancer causes
Melbourne :: Australia | 2 days ago
Credibility MacPhee, a world authority on the radiation and chemical causes of cancer, has died in the Austin Hospital after a battle with cancer...MacPhee's scientific career was devoted to understanding how chemicals cause changes in DNA, which can lead to mutations...
Tags: DONALD MacPhee, environmental mutagens, international conferences, Japan, Australia, Melbourne, Health Medical Pharma, Genetics, Carcinogen, Mutagen, Oncology, Radioactivity, Mutation, Cancer, Toxicology
BRAVE NEW SNAILS?
Genetic researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan have been experimenting with some pretty screwy things lately. Their experiments with Giant Pond Snails have allowed them to change important genetic traits. Snails are predestined by their genes...
Tags: snails, Genetics, Japan, Brave New World, allnews, Aldous Huxley, genes, Tōkyō, Gamma, Gastropods, Snail, Pond Snails, allnews
Experts scan disease links with Chinese "gene map"
Hong Kong :: China | 3 days ago
Credibility A large analysis of the genes of 8,200 ethnic Chinese has revealed subtle genetic differences between inhabitants in northern China and southern China, and even between different Chinese dialect groups. Published in the American Journal of Human Genetics,...
Tags: China, Hong Kong, Health Medical Pharma, Chinese language, Autoimmune diseases, Autoimmunity, Connective tissue diseases, Genome, Genetics, Population genetics, Human genetics, Psoriasis, Systemic lupus erythematosus, Genetic mapping, Evolution, Genetic variation, Genomics
Victoria's DPP orders DNA case review
Melbourne :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility DPP Jeremy Rapke, QC, has launched an audit to identify the cases affected by the evidence to see if any defendants were wrongly convicted or jailed, The Age newspaper said. The move follows reports on Wednesday in The Age that the Victoria Police forensic...
Tags: Victoria Police, DPP Jeremy Rapke, Australia, Melbourne, Molecular biology, DNA profiling, DNA, Biometrics, Personal identification, Combined DNA Index System, Genetics, Forensic science, STR analysis, Law Crime, Director of Public Prosecutions
Nature Up Close
Portland :: ME :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility This specimen has a "crown of thorns," a defensive trait induced in offspring only when the parents sense chemical cues released by one of their main predators, the tadpole shrimp Triops cancriformis . The water flea's exoskeleton (exterior structure,...
Tags: Portland, Health Medical Pharma, Plant cell, Genetics, Arabidopsis thaliana, Brassicaceae, Plant anatomy, Microscopy, Arabidopsis, Haematococcus pluvialis
UK Police Arresting People Just To Add To DNA Database?
London :: CA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility But it's not just on the accessing or revealing of data that this can happen...Jabberwocky alerts us to the news that police in the UK have supposedly been arresting innocent people just to add them to the UK's DNA database . The report looking into this,...
Tags: dna database, dna dilemma, London, DNA, United Kingdom National DNA Database, DNA profiling, Forensic software, Biometrics, Genetics, Personal identification, Murder of Teresa de Simone, S and Marper v United Kingdom, Law enforcement in the United Kingdom, Helices, Molecular biology, Scattering, Privacy, Diffraction, Law Crime
Brain-eating tribe helps in understanding of mad cow disease!
Port Moresby :: Papua New Guinea | 4 days ago
Credibility Brain-eating tribe helps in understanding of mad cow disease Updated on Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 16:15 IST London: Scientists have discovered a rare example of rapid human evolution by analysing a cannibalistic ritual in which the brains of dead...
Tags: mad cow, Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Cannibalism, Genetics, Brain, Kuru, Fore people, Environment, Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, Prions, Neurology, Health Medical Pharma
Thanks to GINA, your genes can't affect your job
Kansas City :: MO :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility In many cases, we’ve seen patients who could have benefited greatly from genetic testing but didn’t get it or paid out of pocket so their insurance companies wouldn’t find out about their results,” said Steven Keiles, president of the National Society...
Tags: genetic test, Becky Fisher, Kansas City, Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, Genetic testing, Judy Biggert, Olympia Snowe, Discrimination, Genetics, Medical genetics, 110th United States Congress, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues, Labor
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