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Egypt's $5 million DNA lab, funded by the Discovery Channel, is the centerpiece of an ambitious plan to identify mummies and re-examine the royal mummy collection.
Months after Egypt boldly announced that archaeologists had identified a mummy as the most powerful queen of her time, scientists in a museum basement are still analyzing DNA from the bald, 3,500-year-old corpse to try to back up the claim aired on TV.
A man who spent months in jail after being accused of sexually assaulting and drowning his 3-year-old daughter before DNA evidence cleared him was awarded, with his wife, $15.5 million Thursday.
A murder charge filed this year based on DNA tests unavailable when the victim was strangled in 1980 is being dropped because more testing made the case difficult to prove, a prosecutor said Thursday.
A man enjoyed freedom Tuesday after a DNA test proved he did not commit a 1979 rape. John Jerome White, 48, left Macon State Prison on Monday evening.
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that collecting DNA evidence from nonviolent drug offenders doesn't violate their privacy rights.
The "CSI"-style wizardry increasingly being used to solve crimes is running up against its limitations in Houston, where police are hunting for a possible serial killer in the slayings of seven prostitutes.
An Abyssinian cat from Missouri, named Cinnamon, has just made scientific history. Researchers have largely decoded her DNA, a step that may aid the search for treatments for both feline and human diseases.
Australian troops' DNA records will be collected to ensure that blast victims can be identified, defense officials said Wednesday as the body of the latest soldier killed in Afghanistan was brought home.
Two services launching just a week apart tap a growing interest in DNA testing to help people find their ancestors and learn more about their lives.
Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo wants foreigners seeking visas to join relatives in the U.S. to provide DNA samples to prove their family ties.
Rascal's mom looked like Lassie. And his dad? Well, that's a good question. Rascal's ears make it clear that he was the product of something besides a collie, but his owners couldn't say exactly what. So Kathie Svoboda of Lincoln dabbed a swab in her pet's mouth, mailed it to a lab and, a few weeks later, unlocked the mutt's canine heritage.
People are less alike than scientists had thought when it comes to the billions of building blocks that make up each individual's DNA, according to a new analysis.
An 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from the oldest known ice on Earth is now growing in a laboratory, claim researchers.
Ice-covered Greenland really was green a half-million or so years ago, covered with forests in a climate much like that of Sweden and eastern Canada today.
Norman O. Wheeler probably wishes he had finished that cinnamon bun. DNA evidence from the partly eaten pastry led to Wheeler's arrest in a 2004 car theft.
Nicknamed Conan the Bacterium, Deinococcus radiodurans can survive doses of ionising radiation thousands of times stronger than would kill a human. So how does it do it?
When a 60-year-old man spat on the sidewalk, his DNA became as public as if he had been advertising it across his chest.
The evolutionary tree shows how pubic lice – Pthirus pubis and Pthirus gorillae – afflict humans and gorillas. Humans and chimps, meanwhile, can host Pediculus head lice (Illustration: J W Demastes/T Choe/V S Smith)
Illegal ivory tusks seized in Singapore in 2002 give reveal the scale of the poaching problem (Image: PNAS)
Researchers analysing the DNA in Neolithic human remains claim to have uncovered the first direct evidence that modern humans have evolved changes in response to natural selection.
The long-suspected link between Alzheimer's disease and abnormalities in the way amyloid protein is processed in the brain has been confirmed at last.
AFTER a tantalisingly successful run at sequencing parts of the extinct woolly mammoth's genome, the project is now stalled for lack of funds.
A grid of 9 wells corresponds to the squares on a tic-tac-toe grid (Image: Joanne Macdonald)
The first comparison of human and Neanderthal DNA shows that the two lineages diverged about 400,000 years ago and that Neanderthals may have had more DNA in common with chimps than with modern humans.
The journal Science has published its choice for the most important scientific breakthrough of 2007. It's about you, me, and everyone else on the planet. This is the year in which technology made it much faster and easier to scan through large portions of an individual's genome.
There was no missing the similarities: the flat bridge of their noses, the thin lips, the fold near the corner of their eyes. And to the families of 14-year-old Samantha Napier and 4-year-old Taygen Lane there was something else, too.
In the summer of 2002, the FBI, the Baton Rouge Police Department, and several other agencies began a massive search for a serial killer suspected of murdering three women.
In the beginning, there was creationism, which assumed we had never evolved. Then came the theory of evolution through random mutation and natural selection.
Sunday, December 23, 2007 Can you be Pro-Life and still support the Death Penalty? I was visiting some family and friends this weekend. My daughter drove us down…..she has her permit and was wanting to get some practice in……but that is another story for another time.
It came to my attention tonight that this particular new avenue of thought regarding molecular genetics isn't exactly widely known, despite being a hot research item over the last several years.
A mud volcano that erupted in Indonesia in May 2006 showed no sign of stopping at the end of that year, having covered entire villages in mud...
Court ruled this afternoon to indemn Kevin Fox with $15.5 million for fabricated evidence and forced confession from him for his 3-year-old daughter's murder.
Whatever the unquestionable scientific genius behind this breakthrough, there is something about this that has an evil resonance to it. The ability to create life from scratch seems to supplant God, taking away His right to define when Life begins.
The collaborative work between the University of Dayton research groups of Dai, Wright Brothers Institute Endowed Chair in Nanomaterial, and Dr.
Scientists using computer simulations have developed new DNA sequencing technique.
An online dating website that compares the DNA of its customers promises a more satisfying sex life and healthier children for couples who are genetically matched.
Scientists in Maryland have already built the world's first entirely handcrafted chromosome -- a large looping strand of DNA made from scratch in a laboratory, containing all the instructions a microbe needs to live and reproduce.
Doctors are encouraging a new group of people to consider getting tested for genes that raise the risk of breast cancer: men.
The deeper we look into the genetic code, the more surprises we find. The first complete maps of the human genome turned up far fewer genes than expected (30,000 versus the anticipated 80,000 to 140,000).
[T]he chicken story was just one of several breakthroughs made--or reported--this year that attest Polynesian seafaring abilities and provide new evidence about the origins and culture of the Lapita people, the ancestors of the Polynesians who colonized the Pacific.
When a thief started taking cash from his register over the weekend, Dunkin' Donuts employee Dustin Hoffmann fought back by clobbering the man with a ceramic mug.
Ironically, it turns out Nobel laureate, DNA co-discoverer, and hardcore racist James Watson actually descends from Africans a couple of generations back...
The Internet is a great big mix of useful Internet tools used for improving daily life and fun websites used for entertainment. This article provides 15 fun and humorous personality tests and Internet widget tools that will take the stress off of the day and put a smile
A couple of weeks ago, I speculated in a post called The Open Organism: Genetic Engineering in the Open Source Era on the possibility for hackers to build their own custom organisms like people build web apps now.
Nobel Laureate James Watson is now in a prime position to have his intelligence questioned. He just discovered his genetic makeup is 16% African! The very race of whom he claimed genetics point to them having less intelligence than whites. Go figure! Talk about poetic justice.
Wired.com this week revealed that the popular website SellMyDNA.com is a hoax, and they do not really pay $5,000 for DNA samples.
The technological thriller Gattaca portrays an aerospace firm in a future where society analyzes each individuals DNA at birth. It now appears that the premises of this fictional movie isn't all that far-fetched.
WILLIAM GREGORY and David Pope were both convicted of rape. Mr. Gregory served seven years in a Kentucky prison and Mr. Pope was imprisoned by Texas for 15 years before being released because of new DNA evidence.
Kate and Gerry McCann are confident they will now be cleared of all suspicion over their daughter's disappearance following a crucial meeting between UK and Portuguese forensic specialists.
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