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...spurred by dreams of giga-bucks, appeared to be in the lead. But like an Aesopian tortoise, the government scientists working with the Human Genome Project have continued pushing along. In November they announced that they had completed mapping the first billion "letters"--or basic chemical units--in our DNA's alphabet...
Matt Ridley refers to the study of human genes and the idea of the genome as a book [SCIENCE, Feb. 28]. Well, I sincerely hope that nobody will ever be able to read the DNA book. It would be interesting to know how many people really want the human genome to be mapped. One can't be for the project and against cloning, genetic engineering for humans and all the things that are tightly linked to genetic research. Technology has always led to the best and the worst: steel gave us plows but also weapons; computers gave us the Internet...
Former O.J. Simpson lawyer Barry Scheck joined the co-authors of his new book, Actual Innocence, lawyer Peter Neufeld and columnist Jim Dwyer, in a panel discussion about the possibilities for DNA to exonerate the wrongly convicted...
...trio discussed their work over the last decade on "The Innocence Project," a program based at the Cardozo School of Law in Wisconsin, which has helped to exonerate 70 people--including eight on death row--in North America using DNA evidence...
Education is needed across the board, panelists said. Police need to be educated in how to handle physical evidence and students need to be taught about scientific evidence. As it stands, lawyers are intimidated by DNA evidence...