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“The new DNA evidence identifying Jackson’s DNA as the sole male DNA in Mrs. Roberts’ rape kit is powerful evidence that Barbour’s confession is false,” the judge wrote, “and that Mrs. Roberts’ murder did not occur as the prosecution presented it at trial...Barbour’s confession never made much...

Within the last few days Crystal Mangum recanted her accusation against the three Duke lacrosse players. My intention for this thread is that it can cover any aspect of the 2006-2007 case, including Ms. Mangum's conviction. This case has many earmarks of false accusations or convictions: At...

"A Missouri judge held an evidentiary hearing Wednesday over the innocence claim of death row inmate Marcellus Williams, whose quest to prove he did not murder a woman in 1998 has been complicated by contaminated DNA evidence." CNN From what I can gather, there was none of Mr. Williams' DNA on...

I put some links into the Andrew Malkinson thread because some aspects of the two cases are similar. However, this case deserves its own thread IMO. Victor Nealon was convicted of a 1996 attempted rape in Reddich in 1997 and was given a discretionary life sentence. Among the problems in this...

Colorado Bureau of Investigation finds DNA scientist manipulated data in hundreds of cases over decades https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/09/us/colorado-bureau-of-investigation-data-scientist-manipulation-case/index.html This sucks. I wonder how many innocents are in prison due to her work? It is...

I'm considering buying a full sequence genetic test for myself. A lot of the more well-known genetic testing sites like 23andme don't do full sequencing, they only target specific genes for testing. I'd like to get the whole sequence done, so I can check for rare genetic conditions and also...

"The case concerns Derrick Chappell, 41, Morton Johnson, 44, and Samuel Grasty, 47, who each were convicted in separate trials of second-degree murder [of a 70 year old woman near Philadelphia] and other charges in 2000 and 2001 and sentenced to life in prison...Tests on the DNA from the semen...

This case came up in a death penalty thread, starting at comment #203. Since that time a hair found in the hand of one of the victims was tested, and the DNA profile did not match Mr. Weger. "A DNA test that showed a hair found on a gloved hand of Murphy was from an unidentified man." Chicago...

This Paper just came out. Nuclear preservation in the cartilage of the Jehol dinosaur Caudipteryx:jaw-dropp I guess technically what they really did was use a stain that attaches to threads of chromatin. And it dyed the nuclear area of some de-siliconized cells found in a dinosaur...

Aboriginal Australians, Pacific Islanders carry DNA of unknown human species, research analysis suggests I wasn't sure if this should go here or under history. Please move if needed.

Ok. People know about this stuff better then I do, so here I turn. I was watching some stories on the upcoming anniversary of the murder of Jon Bennett Ramsey. It's been almost 20 years. The issue I am wondering about is this. Apparently there was DNA of an unknown male that may belong to the...

An engineered bacterium is able to copy DNA that contains unnatural genetic letters. I don't exactly understand how momentous this is, but Huffington Post has picked up on it quite quickly. This is where our resident experts will hopefully offer their opinions and explanations for us laymen.

Official site. Another take. Fascinating. I for one welcome our future squamous, non-Euclidian overlords

It seems the science of genetics is turning into a cat fight over the issue of junk DNA. Last year a big science project called "encode" concluded that large parts of the so called junk DNA wasn't junk after all, now another group of scientists has dismissed their findings and accused them of...

"A new study finds male genes in women’s brains, the first evidence of microchimerism in the human brain." http://the-scientist.com/2012/09/27/swapping-dna-in-the-womb/ Intriguing, but I haven't seen (or got the skills to analyse) the complete study. I suspect we'll see woos saying this...

A friend sent me this link. I think most of the verbiage used is of the "I don't think that means what you think it means" variety. An example: "This brings us back to Gariaev's holographic soliton projection model, where resonant nonlinear wave combinations result in standing-wave blueprints...

Study: Eastern wolves are hybrids with coyotes

How the Penis Lost Its Spikes Humans ditched DNA to evolve smooth penises and bigger brains. OK, so the title is an attempt to be a smart a$$. Obviously evolution is not a species driven process. We men did not will this to happen! I am confused by the story though. From the article: "Now...

I am a layman in all respects and i am confused a little by certain evolutionary theories. We know that once there were mammals that devolved back into fish and that fossil records are based on skeletons and not necessarily biological processes. So i wanted to know what a clone was. Are...

Some years ago I was reading a tabloid that said that in very rare cases a man is only able to have dublicates of his wife or female partner. His own DNA acts as a catalyst for the reproduction of his partner only. Ok when I was at a funeral a man told me that he was one of these rare men...

In another thread, the assertion was made that dead skin cells don't contain DNA. Based on my knowledge, I can't see any support for this idea. Yet this fact was stated in court by a prosecution expert witness and accepted by the court as true. Rather than drag all the experts into a he said...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8227442.stm

OK, this was in the Dutch papers a while ago. I meant to post it here then. Apparently the Dutch police has trouble with criminals stealing DNA from each other. The idea is that when you go and commit a crime, it might be a good idea to leave some hairs from a "friend" on the crime scene. And...

In another thread, Kurious Kathy has claimed that "DNA research" somehow opposes evolution: As it would be off-topic in that thread, I've started this one so that Kathy can explain how "DNA research" opposes evolution. Over to you, Kathy.

I was watching a program about the lost colony at Roanoke. Their disapearance has been a mystery for many centuries. A tribe of Indians who call themselves Lumbee claim that the white settlers took refuge with them and that they didn't actually disapear. Well no one believed them. Well along...

Despite having decent writing skills, I have not yet written a book. I'm awful at coming up with workable plots, especially endings. After much thought and note-making, though, I think I may have come up with a good idea, at last. I am, however, a little lacking in certain areas of scientific...

Would it one day be possible for scientists to take modern human DNA locate the pre modern hominid DNA and using that revitalized genetic material to recreate a say for instance a Homo zinjanthropus? Yes I misspelled that.

Does anyone have any information on Ed Smith and Bigfoot DNA? Here is a post from BFF. "For what it's worth, the 'Ed Smith' research project on the MABRC website has relatively recently received purported BF DNA testing results which tentatively indicate approximately 78% primate/gorilla and...

I have had no success to locate a thread on 23 and me. 23andme [ctrl, enter] (Newbie without permissions...) Hence I take the liberty to start a new one, and humbly apologize if there is one already. I read about it recently and had many objections, while at the same time marvelled at the...

I have a hypothesis. I hypothesize that a substantial portion of Intelligent Design ideas are actually dependent upon a history of taking analogies too far. For example, the whole idea that DNA contains "specified information" is really a consequence of taking the analogy of "DNA is like a...