Word: dna
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...what about the Kirk Bloodsworths? This ex-Marine was convicted of child molestation and murder by a Maryland court and was sentenced to die, only to then be exonerated by DNA evidence just in time to save his life. And what about the Jerome Livases? Mr. Livas was convicted of murdering two elderly women—despite there being no physical evidence linking him to the crime, despite failing to match the FBI profile of the killer and despite the continuation of similar murders after he was incarcerated (the police wrote them off as “copycat?...
...which the public can attend the weekend’s events follows with the vision of the Boston Fashion Week founder and executive producer, Jay Calderin, of a Boston “fashion community.” At other major fashion events, a person needs to hand over a DNA sample or be dating (or be) someone with the last name Paltrow, Onassis or Roberts to be let into shows. Boston’s shows are open to the public, however, and prices to attend range from $60 to nada...
...that make it reminiscent of an overblown rock opera à la The Who’s Tommy, but there’s not really enough to make sense of the stories of child-eating hyena-cicadas (Track 17: “Lecithin’s Tale of a DNA experiment that went horribly awry”) or anything else. Apparently they made a movie as well. Maybe that would help. “Let’s do everything for the first time forever” is comically sweet and less contrived, but still lacks a convincing melody...
...DNA in the mitochondria - cell organelles whose genetic makeup is determined by the mother alone - of all native Europeans except the Sami people of Northern Scandinavia reveal descent from one of what Sykes grandly calls "The Seven Daughters of Eve" (the title, incidentally, of his upcoming book to be published in June). He contends that these ancient matriarchs migrated to Europe from Africa via the Middle East or Asia as long as 50,000 years ago, and he has even assigned evocatively mythical names to each one: Ursula, Helena, Velda, Tara, Katrine, Xenia and Jasmine. He has also delineated rough...
...Descendants of these seven lineages show up in all European ethnic groups, so correlating them to our modern notions of ethnicity is pointless. There is no evidence that differences in mitochondrial DNA track with any other inherited traits. Besides, there is the small matter of men, whose genetic contributions don't show up in mitochondrial DNA. In the coming months, Sykes expects to start offering codification of the prehistoric ancestral information imbedded in the Y chromosome. Other recent research suggests that there are 10 patrilineal lineages in Europe; Sykes says there are more, and he is likely to create names...