Word: dna
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Scientists are, after all, working counter to millions of years of evolution. The basic goal of gene therapy is to take bits of DNA that did not originate in patients' bodies, insert them into the patients' tissue and somehow get them to turn on or, in the jargon of the field, "express" themselves. Yet this is precisely the sort of biological action that the body's immune system interprets as a threat and is primed to fight...
...year of saturated publicity, the search for a dozen unbiased jurors is certain to be more difficult than it was the first time. Los Angeles district attorney Gil Garcetti has promised to retry Simpson even if the jury votes 11 to 1 for acquittal. The seminars on dna evidence. The bloody glove. Mark Fuhrman. Kato Kaelin. Could there be anyone, anywhere, who would want to go through that again...
...BLOOD Prosecutors contend that O.J. left blood--his own and that of his victims--around the crime scene, in his car and at his home. Defense attorneys say the blood was either contaminated by police incompetence, making DNA tests unreliable, or planted by Fuhrman and Vannatter. To support the latter claim, they point out that blood disappeared from the lab sample taken from Simpson's arm for comparison purposes in the DNA tests. A nurse originally testified that the sample contained around 8 cc of blood on June 13, but according to defense testimony it lost 1.5 cc of blood...
...second set of DNA tests, done in a lab not affiliated with the L.A.P.D., also showed the blood of O.J., Ron and Nicole in the Bronco. But the defense explains that by saying Fuhrman rubbed the bloody glove around the car. They offer no physical evidence to support their claims, but to the mind of the jurors they may not need to. Their allegations exist in a context of public anger over the L.A.P.D.'S problems with race relations, to say nothing of Fuhrman...
...persuaded a few surviving Romanovs, including the ex-Czar's first cousin Grand Duke Andrew, that she was Nicholas' youngest daughter Anastasia. A majority of the family were not convinced: their skepticism was vindicated last year when Anderson, who died in 1984, was exposed as an imposter by DNA testing...