Word: dna
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...further setback, the defense was denied immediate access to blood samples for DNA testing after arguing that the prosecution had acted in bad faith when a police crime lab withheld some for future testing. In a ruling released last Friday, Judge Lance Ito acknowledged that the prosecution's handling of the blood evidence was a "picture of confusion, miscommunication and noncommunication between the prosecuting attorneys and LAPD." But, he said, the performance "does not rise to the level of bad faith or misconduct...
...fight made clear how ferociously the defense will attempt to discredit the DNA evidence once the trial gets under way. Last Monday the prosecution disclosed that two different DNA tests had turned up a genetic match between Simpson's blood and the trail of blood droplets leading from the site where Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slain. This sent defense lawyers scrambling to demonstrate that various samples had been mishandled and might be contaminated. Under questioning, Andrea Mazzola, a novice police lab technician, said that her work in Simpson's driveway had been unsupervised by a senior technician...
...DNA on Trial...
...Simpson's lawyers called for new DNA tests to determine whether the first ones, tying him to Nicole Brown Simpson's murder, were compromised by contaminated blood samples and improper handling. Judge Lance Ito ruled that the prosecutors would not have to share blood evidence with the defense, even though they had been "less than exemplary" in handling...
While treading cautiously in many areas, the NIH panel is supportive of several innovative lines of research. For example, biologists have learned how to trick unfertilized animal eggs into developing as if they had been fertilized. Without the sperm's DNA, however, these so-called parthenotes quickly perish. One tentative NIH proposal would allow scientists to produce parthenotes from human eggs. Such experiments could yield information on how embryonic cells influence each other's growth...