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UK Police Arresting People Just To Add To DNA Database?
London :: CA :: USA | 6 days ago
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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 | 6 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 | 7 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
'Arrests made just to get DNA samples'
London :: United Kingdom | 7 days ago
Credibility DNA database without proper political debate and police routinely arrest people just to get their DNA profiles onto the system, the genetics watchdog said in a report today. The Human Genetics Commission, which advises the Government on the social, legal...
Tags: dna database, Britain, genetic commission, national dna, United Kingdom, London, DNA, Forensic software, National DNA database, DNA profiling, Recordable offence, Law enforcement, Biometrics, Personal identification, Law Crime, Government database, Privacy, Genetics, Social Issues, United Kingdom National DNA Database, Police, Criminal record, Criminal law, Arrest
DNA is only Mumbai daily to show year-on-year readership growth
Mumbai :: India | 7 days ago
Credibility In a year in which the Indian economy suffered from the roll-on effects of a global meltdown, DNA's average issue readership (AIR) grew 1.5% year-on-year compared to corresponding figures in 2008. This is largely because of DNA's loyal and growing reader...
Tags: India, Mumbai, Hindustan Times, Mumbai Mirror, Business Finance, Delhi, The Times of India, Lakh, Helices, Scattering, Newspaper, DNA, Diffraction, Genetics
When Your Boss Wants Your DNA
New York :: NY :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility Posted by majestic on November 23, 2009 Joseph Shapiro reports for NPR : Last month, Matt Williams, an adjunct professor at the University of Akron, opened an e-mail from his bosses about the school’s new rules for hiring and was “absolutely blown away,”...
Tags: Matthew Williams, adjunct professors, New York, Helices, Scattering, Adjunct, National Public Radio, DNA, Diffraction, Genetics
Researchers herald cancer test breakthrough
Sydney :: Australia | 8 days ago
Credibility Researchers hope the new test will also lead to new anti-cancer treatments for the most aggressive cancers, such as brain and bone cancer. They are also confident the test will provide more accurate life expectancy for patients. Dr Jeremy Henson made...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Pathology, Brain tumor, Prostate cancer, Institute of Cancer Research, Oncology, Cancer, Occupational safety and health, Health Medical Pharma, Telomerase, Molecular biologists, Children's Medical Research Institute, Elizabeth Blackburn, Chromosomes, Telomere, Genetics
Genome work is closer to improving health care
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility A whirlwind of activity is underway to apply the findings of the $3 billion Human Genome Project to improve health care in the United States and around the world. Six years after scientists finished decoding the human genome — the genetic instruction...
Tags: health care, personalized medicine, human genomic, Francis Collins, improvement health, Seattle, Medicine, Human Genome Project, Human genome, Genomics, Genetics, Genetic mapping, Health Medical Pharma
New discovery could make plants disease resistant and high-yielding
Ács :: Hungary | 9 days ago
Credibility To understand the function and regulatory roles of each ACS gene in ethylene production during plant development, scientists from Theologis' laboratory analyzed the essential and nonessential roles of each of the family of Arabidopsis ACS genes. They...
Tags: acs gene, disease resistant, Arabidopsis ACS, plant disease, Hungary, Ács, Genetics, Arabidopsis thaliana, Flower, Alkenes, Ethylene, Monomers, Health Medical Pharma, Environment
New law bans genetic discrimination
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility The most sweeping federal anti-discrimination law in nearly 20 years takes effect Saturday, prohibiting employers from hiring, firing or determining promotions based on genetic makeup. Additionally, health insurers will not be allowed to consider a person's...
Tags: genetic information, Personalized Medicine Coalition, Los Angeles, 110th United States Congress, Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, Genetic discrimination, Genetic testing, Personalized medicine, Genetics, Discrimination, Employment law, Social Issues, Labor, Law Crime
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