The Home Office has accidentally deleted 150,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest records from a national police database during a weekly data purge. The history records were deleted in a technological blunder and could allow offenders to go free as evidence from crime scenes will not be flagged on the Police National Computer (PNC), reported The … Read more
Not every new animal is discovered in the jungle or rainforest: A new species of snake was discovered in a museum after being ignored by researchers for years. Levitonius mirus, also known as the Waray dwarf burrowing snake, is native to the Philippines. But specimens of the snake sent to the University of were misidentified until … Read more
Not every new animal is discovered in the jungle or rainforest: A new species of snake was discovered in a museum after being ignored by researchers for years. Levitonius mirus, also known as the Waray dwarf burrowing snake, is native to the Philippines. But specimens of the snake sent to the University of Kentucky were … Read more
The FBI has confirmed that Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, is the prime suspect in the Nashville Christmas Day bombing, saying he died in an apparent suicide attack when an RV exploded outside of an AT&T building. Local and federal officials said that remains at the scene were a DNA match to Warner, an eccentric IT … Read more
The corn on your holiday table may have more in common with ancient wild varieties from South America than the domesticated version believed to have originated in southwestern Mexico. It’s long been assumed domesticated maize traveled south from Central America, but a new study suggests the trade actually went in both directions. DNA analysis of … Read more
Form of hereditary blindness can be cured in BOTH eyes ‘by injecting modified DNA into one of them’ to fix a faulty genetic mutation, study finds Researchers injected modified DNA into the back on one eye of a LHON patient In 78 per cent of cases, blindness was cured in both eyes, the researchers found Jab … Read more
A teenager who claims he is Diego Maradona‘s lovechild has demanded the football great’s body be drug up for DNA tests to prove his case. Santiago Lara, 19, instructed his lawyer to make the appeal less than 24 hours after the Naples and Barcelona star was buried. Jose Nunez lodged a written request with a … Read more
Mystery surrounds identity of man whose severed legs were found in river at picturesque beauty spot after police failed to find DNA match, inquest hears A bin bag inside a shopping trolley was washed up on the River Stour in August Inside the bag were a man’s severed legs and police launched investigation But DNA … Read more
DNA belonging to Denisovans – the ancient human ancestor – discovered in a Tibetan cave may be only 45,000 years old, scientists say. The ancient Denisovan mitochondrial DNA was recovered in sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave, a limestone cave at the northeast margin of the Tibetan Plateau, 3,280 meters above sea level. Samples indicate Denisovans … Read more
Contaminated water with the potential to damage human DNA could soon be released into the Pacific Ocean, Greenpeace claims. The utility company operating the tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, said last year it will run out of space to store massive quantities of it by 2022. This has added immense pressure on the … Read more