DNA
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
5 Bodies Nobody Ever Found The wreckage of Steve Fossett's plane was located last month, but it's still too early to say with absolute certainty that Fossett's body has been found. (Partial remains are currently undergoing DNA analysis.) Here are five bodies we still haven't stumbled across, even after all these years.
Dawg's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
CSI really stands for Canine Sh*t Investigators. An Israeli city hopes to use DNA analysis in the fight against dog poop littering its footpaths. With a six-month trial program, the city of Petah Tikva, a suburb of Tel Aviv, intends to build a DNA database of local dogs in order to match improperly disposed droppings with owners. [...]
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
The expanding power of DNA analysis is a key focus of this year's 19th International Symposium on Human Identification hosted by Promega Corporation. This year, keynote speaker, Dr. Sean Carroll will discuss the utility of DNA as the "Ultimate Record of Evolution.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
The expanding power of DNA analysis is a key focus of this year's 19th International Symposium on Human Identification hosted by Promega Corporation. This year, keynote speaker, Dr.
CDRH Consumer News (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
The COBAS Taqman HBV Test For Use With The High Pure System is a laboratory test kit that measures the amount of hepatitis B viral DNA in the blood of an individual infected by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Viral DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the...
Sandwalk (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959. "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" Severo Ochoa (1905 -1993 ) received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of an enzyme that synthesizes RNA from ribonucleotide triphosphates. The enzyme, polynucleotide phosphorylase [Monday's Molecule #90], was
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GlobalOptions Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: GLOI), a leading provider of domestic and international risk management services, today announced that its Bode Technology unit
Archaeolog (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
David H. Gremillion, MD, FACP (Fellow Infectious Diseases Society of America, Professor of Medicine, Nippon Medical School) Our current understanding of human migration derives from advances in four more or less integrated disciplines: archeology, physical anthropology, DNA analysis and linguistics....
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Source: Crime & Justice News "The success of the 'touch' DNA analysis testing using a DNA technique that in July cleared JonBenet Ramsey's family in her death is triggering requests for the test from law enforcement officials seeking similar breakthroughs in unsolved crimes, reports USA Today. Private and state-run laboratories report increases of up to 20 percent in use of the technique. Analysts...
ZD Net Blog (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
University of Virginia (U.Va.) professor James Landers is known as 'a master of compression' because he has reduced an entire laboratory for DNA analysis to a chip the size of a common everyday microscope slide. His future handheld device may allow 'physicians, crime scene investigators, pharmacists, even the general public, to quickly and inexpensively conduct DNA tests from almost anywhere, without...
Jewlicious (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
An Israeli city is using DNA analysis of dog droppings to reward and punish pet owners. Under a six-month trial programme launched this week, the city of Petah Tikva, a suburb of Tel Aviv, is asking dog owners to take their animal to a municipal veterinarian, who then swabs its mouth and collects DNA. The city will [...]
Mirabilis.ca (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Wow, it’s not even an Onion article, nor is this April 1st. From Reuters: City uses DNA to fight dog poop. (Are they serious? Really') An Israeli city is using DNA analysis of dog droppings to reward and punish pet owners. Under a six-month trial programme launched this week, the city of Petah Tikva, a suburb of [...]
Mavi Boncuk (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Mavi Boncuk | DNA Analysis Has Cleared Up The Origins of the Etruscans: Turkish emigrants Tuscany's name in modern days comes from the Etruscans, a very advanced ancient civilization, highly influential in the development of the early Roman civilization. But the origins of the Etruscan civilization has been a vivid debate amongst archaeologists, historians and linguists for centuries. Three are three...
patch (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
A city is matching the DNA in dog poop to vet records to reward and punish people who do and don’t clean up after the defecating pets: PETAH TIKVA, Israel (Reuters) - An Israeli city is using DNA analysis of dog droppings to reward and punish pet owners. Under a six-month trial programme launched this week, the [...]
CNN (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
DNA analysis has confirmed that a third body found in the burnt-out mansion of millionaire Christopher Foster was that of his 15-year-old daughter, police said Thursday.
