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...Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the double helical structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick, the conference kicked off with four preliminary ?tutorials? on topics that are a direct outgrowth of their momentous achievement...
TIME commemorates the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA...
...convictions in 1983. After a third trial, Hernandez’s sentence was reduced to 80 years in prison. Cruz, however, remained on death row until 1995, when both convictions were overturned—the result of a private investigation by journalists and independent lawyers which brought forth compelling DNA evidence and a confession implicating another...
...DNA has acquired a sort of “spiritual vibrancy” in modern society, but is not itself sacred material, Peters said...
Last summer, though, scientists at the University of Wisconsin reported on a long-term study of 400 boys that had been going on for more than a quarter-century. The scientists had collected DNA from the boys and recorded their behavior at regular intervals. As with the earlier research, scientists found that neither genes alone nor childhood abuse alone could explain adult violence. But of the boys who had both mutation and early abuse, fully 85% had committed a violent act as an adult. The implication, says Terrie Moffitt, a professor of psychology at Wisconsin: "Genes influence people's susceptibility...