Gordon Thomas Honeywell Governmental Affairs (GTH-GA) launches forensic DNA World Map Project a database they hope will be essential in helping to create policy-makers with regards for international law enforcement using DNA databases. The United States based company announced in Lyon, France the launch of the Forensic DNA World Map Project (WMP). This is…
56 Years ago, two Oregon women, Kay Rene (Reed) Qualls and DeeAnn (Angell) Shafer, were born at Heppner’s Pioneer Memorial Hospital. While both girls were being bathed they were accidentally switched and returned to the wrong mothers. The mistake was not discovered until the summer of 2008, when a former…
A Texas mother of twins discovers that they have two separate fathers. The mother, Mia Washington, cheated on her partner, James Harrison, with another man. One of her eggs was fertilized by James Harrison’s sperm and the second egg was fertilized by the other man, thereby causing fraternal twins with…
Science Daily’s article “Wolf in Dog’s Clothing?” opens the door for new studies in animal genetics and domestication. Scientists have been able to prove that domesticated dogs that bred with wolves thousands of years ago and that this gave wolves a genetic mutation encoding dark coat color. As a result,…
For years, pregnant and nursing women have been warned to limit the amount of fish they eat, because many fish species may contain high levels of mercury, which endangers development in newborns and fetuses. Recently, National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition, a children’s health group challenged the conventional wisdom, they…
In an article published May 19th, 2009 Scientists released data that shows that this fossil could be, “the first link to all humans … truly a fossil that links world heritage,” said Norwegian paleontologist Jørn Hurum of the University of Oslo Natural History Museum. Meet “Ida,” the small “missing link”…
BioArts is an American company who has teamed up with Sooam Biotech Research Foundation close to Seoul Korea to offer the Best Friends Again Program. This Program offers dog and cat cloning to the general public. Currently they have only offered 4 cloning slots and have not decided if they…
Scientist are now saying that, Humans may have originally caught malaria from gorillas. This is based on research that examined malaria parasites in great ape feces. It was originally thought that the human malaria parasite split off from a chimpanzee parasite when humans and chimpanzees last had a common ancestor. Scientists have found that…
I just came across an article distributed by CNN announcing the above topic, which made me think about the use of DNA. By Dana Rosenblatt, Special Investigations Unit; June 23, 2010 2:41 p.m. EDT It’s a familiar scenario: When clues are scarce, witnesses won’t talk and police are stymied, they…
Norh Robinson 84-year-old World War II veteran and a Mississippi farmer now living in a rural VA hospital, wants Oprah to participate in a paternity test that he says would once and for all prove that he is her father. During a at his hospital, Robinson said that he met…
