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Michelle Obama's Ancestors: 'American Tapestry' Has Holes in It

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Cory Booker, Dolphus Shields, Flotus, Michelle Obama, Melvinia Shields, Heritage, Rachel Swarns, Native Americans, Obama, Virginia, History, Dna, First Lady, Alex Haley, Ancestry, Slavery, Roots, Genetics, Genealogy, Family History, Great Migration, African Americans, North Carolina, American Tapestry, Books News
Megan Smolenyak

As the genealogist who initially researched the first lady's family tree (four to five generations on all branches), I wanted to love American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White and Multicultural Ancestors of Michelle Obama, but found myself disappointed -- mostly due to what's missing.

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What Scientists' Gene Feat Means For Picky Eaters

Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Dna, Video, Genes, Tomato Genome, Fruit, Plant Biology, Genetics, Food Science, Genomics, Botany, Tomatoes, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 05/30/2012 01:07 PM EDT on LiveScience For years scientists have slaved away, trying t...

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New Police Crime Lab To Open In July

Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Dna, Crime Lab, Video, Chief Robert White, Denver News, Real Life Csi, Denver Around Town, Dpd, Best of Denver, Denver Colorado, Denver Police Department, New Denver Crime Lab, Colorado, Denver Police, Denver News

Denver's new $28 million crime lab, set to open in mid-July, comes complete with a shooting range, a gun library and more. The new crime lab was op...

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DNA Study Solves Mystery Of Mysterious Mixed-Race People

AP | TRAVIS LOLLER | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Mixed Race, Dna, History, Video, Melungeon, Race Relations, Melungeon Ancestry, Heritage, Science, Science News, Melungeon Origins, Interracial, Science News

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once...

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Scientists Equip DNA With Amazing New Ability

| Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Dna, Video, Rewritable Dna Memory, Computer Memory, Biology, Dna Memory, Molecular Biology, Bioengineering, Science News

Engineers have invented a way to store a single rewriteable bit of data within the chromosome of a living cell--a kind of cellular switch that offers ...

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Crew Members of the USS Monitor: Solving the Mystery of the Skeletons in the Turret 150 Years Later

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Ironclad, Dna, History, Military, Bones, Civil War, Memorial Day, Sailors, Mystery, Forensics, Genealogy, Genetics, Maritime, Navy, USS Monitor, Shipwreck, Culture News
Megan Smolenyak

Who doesn't love a good history mystery? You don't have to be a Civil War buff to be fascinated with the attempt to identify the two skeletons found in the turret of the USS Monitor when it was raised from the ocean floor a decade ago.

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Mystery Of Horse's Origins Solved With Help Of Hair Samples, Math

AP | RAPHAEL SATTER | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Dna, Video, Domesticated Animals, New Research, Ancestry, Horses, Genetics, Genetics Study, Animals, Tame Animals, Science News

LONDON -- A genetic study of horses across Eastern Europe and Central Asia has traced the domestication of one of man's most powerful animal allies to...

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Man Free From Prison After 16 Years For A Crime He Didn't Commit

AP | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Mesa County Colorado, Dna, Denver News, Colorado Crime, DNA Exoneration, Robert Dewey, Grand Junction News, Tim Masters, New DNA Evidence, Colorado, Grand Junction Colorado, Video, Grand Junction, Palisade Colorado, Wrongfully Accused, Denver Colorado, Dna Evidence, Denver, Denver News

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Robert Dewey was 33 when he went to prison for the 1994 rape and murder of a Colorado woman. The 51-year-old walked away free...

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Obsessed: Rosalind Franklin

Theresa Esquerra | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Huffpost Obsessed, Dna, Obsessed, Rosalind Franklin Obsessed, Rosalind Franklin, Culture News
Theresa Esquerra

My interest in Rosalind Franklin was not in the biographical details, but the palpable sense of injustice surrounding her story -- the universal desire of being able to obtain credit and recognition for your work without being cheated out of it.

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Big Pharma Company Battles To Buy Gene Science Firm

Reuters | Ben Hirschler | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Glaxosmithkline, Big Pharma, Dna, Pharmaceutical Industry, Biotechnology, Video, Genes, Genome, Reuters, Human Genome Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Craig Venter, Human Genome, Gsk, Science News

By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said on Wednesday its $2.6 billion bid for long-time partner Human Genome...

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What Polar Bears Were Doing Half A Million Years Ago

Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Population, Dna, Grizzly Bears, Video, Species, Biology, Polar Bears, Evolution, Endangered Species, Climate Change, Animals, Bears, Global Warming, Arctic, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/19/2012 02:13 PM EDT on LiveScience Polar bears have been chilling on the ice far lon...

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Artificial DNA Can Do WHAT?

Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Dna, Synthetic Biology, Xna Molecule, Synthetic Life, Darwin, Biology, Life Forms, Evolution, Genetics, Xna, Cell Biology, Molecule, Video, Science News

By: Charles Q. Choi, InnovationNewsDaily Contributor Published: 04/19/2012 04:26 PM EDT on InnovationNewsDaily Synthetic molecules resembling DN...

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Hundreds Of Convicted Defendants Left Uninformed About Forensic Flaws

The Washington Post | Spencer S. Hsu | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Dna, FBI Lab, John Norman Huffington, Forensic Evidence, Michael P. Malone, Santae A. Tribble, Fbi, Justice Department, Benjamin Herbert Boyle, Kirk L. Odom, Crime News

Justice Department officials have known for years that flawed forensic work might have led to the convictions of potentially innocent people, but pros...

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Gene Study Reveals Big Limitation Of DNA Mapping

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Dna, Video, Human Genome Mapping, Hereditary Disease, Gene, Gene Mapping, Genetic Disease, Dna Disease, Dna Map, Human Genome, Science News

WASHINGTON -- Gene scans for everyone? Not so fast. New research suggests that for the average person, decoding your own DNA may not turn out to be a ...

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Janell Ross

St. Petersburg Scraps Plan To Build Police Headquarters, 'Peculiar Smelling' CSI Lab Lives On

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Dna, Police Headquarters, Crime Lab, Property Tax, Budget Cuts, Tax Cuts, Florida, Sales Tax, Police Department, Business News

In St. Petersburg, Fla., just a few hours northwest of the Miami crime lab TV made famous, the city's forensic team toils in a lab that is anything bu...

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'Green' Scientists Offer Controversial Blueprint For 'Engineered Humans'

Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Dna, Video, Philosophy, Geoengineering, Human Engineering, Greenhouse Gases, Climate Science, Ethics, Bioengineering, Green, Climate Change, Genetics, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Bioethics, Global Warming, Science News

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/30/2012 07:27 AM EDT on LiveScience So far, conventional solutions to global warming ...

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PHOTOS: Artist's Famous Flowers Were Mutants, Gene Study Says

| Ferris Jabr | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Dna, Art, Video, Hacyc2c, Vincent Van Gogh, Genetic Mutation, Genetics, Botany, Painting, Van Gogh, Mutant Sunflowers, Sunflowers, Science News

The word “sunflower” brings to mind a mane of vibrant yellow petals encircling a dark whorl of seeds. But not all sunflowers are alike. Some sunfl...

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DNA Study Shows Color Of Neanderthal Eyes

| Traci Watson | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Dna, Human, Neanderthal, Video, Brown Eyes, Human Evolution, Paleontology, Biology, Croatia, Pigmentation, Neandertal, Genetics, Evolution, Cavemen, Blue Eyes, Science News

In museums around the world, reproductions of Neandertals sport striking blue or green eyes, pale skin, and gingery hair. Now new DNA analysis suggest...

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DNA Testing Expanded To Fare-Jumpers, Shoplifters

Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Dna Testing, Dna, Dna Databases, Video, New-York-Dna-Database-for-All-Criminals, Marijuana, Nyclu, Ny News, New York DNA Database, Dna Databank, New York News, Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York News

New York became the first "all crimes DNA" state in the nation Monday after Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill requiring anyone convicted of...

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On Time, Media and Significance - Chris Twomey's "Triumph"

Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Photography, Dna, AC Institute, Parallax, Sex, Video Art, Chris Twomey, Sculpture, Art, Media, Chelsea Art Galleries, New York City, Arts News
Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta

"In this series, I wanted to heal not only my body, my family, but our world." Chris Twomey from "Parallax." Call it Spring fever, call it the Marc...

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Andrew Cuomo Engineers Another Deal

Dan Collins | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Cuomo Redistricting, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo, Cuomo Pension Reform, Dna, Carl Paladino, Dna Database, New York News
Dan Collins

Cuomo has struck another bargain with legislators. Why isn't he running negotiations in the Mideast? Take a close look at the agreement on pension reform and redistricting, and you'll see why big political compromises are so hard to get done these days.

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WATCH: How To Extract Your Own DNA

Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Nova, Pbs, Dna, How to Extract Dna, Video, Biology, Dna Extraction, Biochemistry, Evolution, Genetics, Pbs Nova, Science Experiment, Science News

At 40,000 times thinner than a human hair, our DNA isn't usually much to look at. But if you're curious about your genetic material and don't happen t...

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David Lohr

Human Remains Found In New York Reservoir In 2009 Identified

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Dna Testing, Dna, Salamanca, Traci Douglass, Crime, Crime News, New York, Timothy Whitcomb, Video, Allegheny Reservoir, Missing Persons, Dennis Dirkmaat, New York Reservoir Remains, Crime News

Authorities in upstate New York have identified human skeletal remains that were found in the Allegheny Reservoir in September 2009. According to t...

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Do You Live in a Rapist-Friendly State? (Yes, There Is Such a Thing.)

Keli Goff | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Dna, Rape, Sexual Assault, Statute of Limitations, Rape Kits, Brian Brockington, Untested Rape Kits, Dna Evidence, Crime News
Keli Goff

In interviews with representatives from organizations dedicated to aiding survivors of sexual assault and improving the criminal justice system's prosecution of sex crimes, I learned that as the current system stands the release of proven rapists is virtually inevitable.

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Being an Original in a Copycat World Is Easier Than You Think

Dennis Merritt Jones | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Authentic Self, Dna, Copycat, Judgment, Uniquness, Inner Peace, Origionality, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News
Dennis Merritt Jones

Today, give some thought to what an amazing thing it is to have been given the gift of life with which to be a unique and beautiful expression of the divine. Don't dishonor the gift by trying to be like anyone else.

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