On December 7, 1941 the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack that decimated the US Pacific Fleet. Of the ships that were attacked few sank as fast or as completely as the Oklahoma, which listed and capsized within…
In a move that seems deceptively futuristic, but is in fact a sign of the times, the Nazareth, Pennsylvania based Martin Guitar Company is making waves in their industry by including botanical genetic coding in the body of their instruments. Generations of…
When President Obama announced Sunday evening, May 1st, that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a United States military operation, many wanted physical proof that the person killed and taken into custody was in fact Mr. Osama Bin Laden. At this…
That’s right April 25th is National DNA Day. It was proclaimed by both the US Senate and the House of Representative in 2003 and while you might not have the day off you might want to stop and think about…
In 2009 a new laboratory was opened at the University of Otago it was expected to unlock secrets about the genetic heritage of Pacific people, animals and plants according to scientists and anthropologists. The ancient DNA laboratory, allows scientists to…
Ozzy Osbourne is the first rock star to give his DNA to science. As reported in Scientific American in October 2010 Ozzy Osbourne has become one of the few to have their entire genome sequenced. Osbourne’s DNA was sequenced and analyzed by Cofactor Genomics and Knome…
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Baroque master’s death is surrounded in mystery, but that mystery may soon be solved thanks to DNA testing — as long as the right body can be found. The caused of death for this famous painter…
Julia Pastrana, the most famous “Bearded Lady”, was a Mexican-born woman who exhibited herself in 19th-century Europe as part of a traveling circus, dancing and singing in clothes that showed off her hairy visage and limbs. At the time, she…
While on a climbing expedition to Mt. Kilimanjaro in 2001, Sacramento State biological science professor Ruth Ballard and a Graduate Student got the idea to create a Tanzanian DNA database based on the fact that there were still many tribes…
Written by Meagan Cantrell and based on an “Early Show Exclusive” interview video by Julie Chen dated 11/29/2007: After 5 years of knowing each other, hometown best friends, Brandy Hersh and Heidi Wickware discovered they’re actually full sisters. Only two…