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We Might Be Martians: The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes

Planning on looking at your family tree? If you go back far enough in time, you might discover relatives who used to live on Mars. While that notion may seem a little far-fetched at first, don't laugh. According to MIT News, many scientists consider that life on Earth may be descended from organisms that arrived here from...

High Court Rules for Texas Inmate Who Wants DNA Testing

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday gave a glimmer of hope to a death row inmate in Texas who wants to test crime-scene evidence that he says may show he is innocent. The court's narrow, 6-3 ruling means that Hank Skinner, who was about an hour away from execution when the Supreme Court intervened last year, will...

New DNA Test Can Detect Hair Color of Suspects

Scientists say they have developed a way to use DNA found at a crime scene to determine the hair color of a suspect. Researchers in the Netherlands identified 13 DNA markers from 11 genes that can help predict when a person has black or red hair with more than 90 percent accuracy and blond and brown hair with about 80...

Did Abe Lincoln's Assassin Escape? DNA May Solve Mystery

Descendants of John Wilkes Booth have agreed to exhume his brother's body for DNA testing in an attempt to determine whether the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln escaped capture and eluded justice, as the family has been told. "I'm absolutely in favor of exhuming Edwin," Joanne Hulme, a Booth family historian, told...

Guard Parrots? Birds Attack Burglars, Serve as Lookouts for Drug Runners

(Sept. 20) -- Who needs guard dogs when you have guard birds? Police in England believe a parrot not only attacked thieves who broke into a pet store, but also collected evidence that could help solve the case. When burglars busted into Hobday's Pet Shop in Conventry late Tuesday or early Wednesday, a sun conure parrot...

Background on dna testing

DNA profiling (also called DNA testing, DNA typing, or genetic fingerprinting) is a technique employed by forensic scientists to assist in the identification of individuals by their respective DNA profiles.

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