Police in Scotland will be able to collect and store the DNA of children as young as eight for the first time under a law just passed by the Scottish Parliament. Children who commit sexual or violent offences can have their DNA and other forensic data collected and stored for three years. That ... Read more...
Like something straight out of a science fiction movie, scientists have created a completely human-made DNA sequence, and used it to give life to an organism. According to Discovery.com, scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute placed an artificial genome into a host cell that lacked DNA... Read more...
Rotavirus vaccines are commonly given to children, and this year's batch of vaccines made by GlaxoSmithKline and Merck are contaminated with a pig virus, the FDA recently discovered. So the FDA called a meeting to determine whether injecting a pig virus into the bodies of young children might be s... Read more...
In a recent interview, President Barack Obama was recently asked by John Walsh, an anti-crime activist since his son Adam was murdered in 1981, if a DNA database should be created upon arrest of an individual. President Obama agrees such as database needs to be created and needs funding. It’s... Read more...