Word: dna
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...Durham County district attorney, Mike Nifong, wants DNA to do the talking: he ordered samples from all the team's white players (46 of the 47), since the victim claimed her assailants were white. Nifong has yet to press charges, although he says the report from the emergency-room examination of the woman convinced him that a sexual assault took place...
Defense lawyers questioned the 911 call, noting that the woman at one point said she was driving by the house, then later that she was walking by it. They also challenged the scope of the DNA sweep, since the team captains told prosecutors that not every player was at the party. Even outraged students and alums like Hopman are urging people not to prematurely judge the players. "We are all Blue Devils in the end," she says. Good teamwork can still bring Duke together. Even when it's tearing it apart...
...think Larry’s DNA is on the bread roll?” asked one potential bidder, according to Hay. “If I win this auction, can I use saliva DNA to clone Larry...
Sadowsky and his fellow researchers have found a way to tease out stretches of marker DNA that indicate whether the bacteria came from human or nonhuman sources. With cities and states across the country spending billions on new water-quality systems, the impact of Sadowsky's work could be huge...
...robotic system that can sample about 40,000 bacterial colonies at once. Using markers for geese that he pinpointed, he successfully identified geese as the source of contamination at a Lake Superior beach last year--allowing a beach to remain open that otherwise would have been closed. Identifying DNA markers for human fecal bacteria is next on his list...