Latest DNA profiling Stories
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- ZyGEM Corp. Ltd., today announced several developments supporting the advancement of its integrated microfluidics platform designed to dramatically decrease the time, complexity and cost of conducting DNA testing. These include presentations at two key scientific meetings, as well as the issuance of a new patent relating to separation technology that supports and further strengthens ZyGEM's intellectual property portfolio. "These scientific...
 Direct-to-consumer personal genetic profiling services that claim to predict people's health risks by analysing their DNA are often inconclusive and companies that sell them should provide better information about the evidence on which the results are based, says the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, in a new report on the ethics of so-called personalised healthcare services.The report says that claims that these services are leading to a new era of "˜personalised healthcare' are overstated...
Scientists at Georgetown University, the National Aquarium and the University of Queensland are the first to extract DNA from dolphin blow (breath exhalations). The researchers found that blow-sampling, which involves collecting exhalations from the blowholes of whales, dolphins and porpoises, could be developed as a less invasive method for DNA collection. Their findings are explained in the Aug. 25 edition of the online journal PLoS ONE in an article titled "Thar She Blows! A Novel...
Names confirmed thanks to technology advances FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Center for Human Identification at the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) analyzes DNA from unidentified human remains for law enforcement organizations and medical examiners across the country in an attempt to put a name to a body or victim. The result, in many cases, is resolution for family members who have spent years wondering about the fate of their loved...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's laboratory has more than 3200 forensic DNA cases in its backlog, according to a report released Monday by the U.S. Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General (OIG)."Our review determined that as of March 2010, the FBI Laboratory had a backlog of 3,211 forensic DNA cases. Given the FBI Laboratory's current rate of work, no new staff, and without any new cases, it would take the FBI Laboratory about 2 years to eliminate its existing forensic DNA...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. and HAMILTON, New Zealand, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- ZyGEM Corp. Ltd., has introduced its new microbial fingerprinting diagnostic technology that is expected to dramatically reduce the complexity and time needed to identify unknown infectious agents in mixed population samples. The approach is designed to run on the company's new MicroLab platform and has the potential to accurately identify up to 30 types of microbes simultaneously from a single sample in less than an...
Researchers from the University of Granada have shown that a person's dental patterns can be used as proof of their identity with the same degree of reliability as DNA testing, the method that forensic police use to reveal the identity of dead bodies. The researchers came to their conclusion after analyzing the dental patterns of more than 3,000 people."There is sufficient dental diversity between people to enable a scientifically-based human identification method to be developed for...
DALLAS, Pa., June 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania Game Commission Wildlife Conservation Officer (WCO) Jim McCarthy, on June 21, filed charges against two men from Gouldsboro, Wayne County, for the unlawful killing of a 600-pound male black bear. Filed in Magisterial Judge Bonnie L. Carney's Office, in Hawley, the charges were against Raymond Carl Kresge, Jr., age 40, and Raymond Carl Kresge, Sr., 66. If convicted, the father-and-son duo faces $1,800 in fines each, as well as...
New York Governor David Paterson has proposed doubling the states's DNA database to include samples from even low-level offenders, making it the first state to collect and use evidence to help solve crimes and exonerate people that have been wrongly convicted. The new law would require adding 48,000 samples a year to a laboratory system that state officials say is capable of handling the extra work. "You think it'd be a huge explosion, but we have samples on so many people that recommit...
OTTAWA, May 5 /PRNewswire/ - DNA Genotek, a leading provider of products for biological sample collection, stabilization and preparation, today announced that The Anthony Nolan Trust, the UK's largest bone marrow donor registry, has selected Oragene DNA for a pilot project aimed at increasing donor recruitment. Bone marrow donor registries, also known as HLA registries, use HLA DNA testing to match leukemia patients with prospective donors. The pilot project will determine if donor...
