Free For The New Year
Corneliue Dupree Jr. was exonerated January 4th 2011 after serving 30 years in jail for a robbery and rape that he did not commit. ”It’s a joy to be free again,” Dupree said after the judge’s ruling. Dupree has been out on…
Category DNA News
Paternity Fraud – Still An Issue
In 2007 Bert Riddick escaped a child-support order for a girl he says he has never met and has proof that he is not her father. Thanks to a 2004 California Law. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill to allow…
Ion Personal Genome Machine
The Ion Personal Genome Machine while still only designed for research use at this time and “not intended for animal or human therapeutic or diagnostic use” will be able to sequence DNA and has an IPod docking station. The Ion…
Has Amelia Erhart’s Remains Been Found?
Three bones found on Nikumaroro Island a remote island in the South Pacific by a group that recovers historic aircraft might prove to be those of Amelia Erhart. The DNA from the bone fragments will be compared to samples donated by…
Priority Three Program Put On Hold Due to Fraud
Humanitarian efforts are delicate issues, and the U.S. State Department’s suspended East African family-reunification is a prime example. The program, known as Priority Three (P3), was instituted to reunify families from civil war-torn areas with relatives living in the U.S..…
Genetic Passports
While in 2006 and 2007 there was a big push to create genetic passports for, plants, animals, microorganisms and even people this seems to be a dream of the past. What happened to genetic passports? Why was there so much interest in them? How…
Skinner v. Switzer – Supreme Court Hearing
On Wednesday October 13th the Supreme Court justices asked about an hour’s worth of questions regarding Henry Skinner’s request that a Texas district attorney turn over all existing DNA evidence in the triple murder he was convicted of in 1995.…
Decoding the Chocolate Genome
Over the years scientists have painstakingly mapped the DNA genome of humans, corn, turkeys and now chocolate. A researchers funded by McLean Candy Company (Mars) is almost done sequencing the genome of the cacao tree, which produces the seeds used…
Austin, Texas Crime Lab Under Scrutiny
Results of a Texas Department of Public Safety audit on the Austin Police Department crime lab will be released this afternoon Back in July former employee Cecily Hamilton filed a complaint stating that there were mistakes with DNA testing at…
