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*The injustices that are regularly committed in our judicial system may have taken a turn for the worst with new procedures giving more power to officers. The Supreme Court ruled that taking DNA once a person is arrested is perfectly legal. It may prevent more crimes and solve many more, but many find this as [...]
*It’s getting serious for Michael Jordan as he steps closer to wedding his long time girlfriend. A judged ordered a DNA test on Tuesday to determine if he is the father of Pamela Smith’s 16-year-old son. Jordan says he’s not the dad and points to Smith’s divorce, in which she acknowledges her ex is the [...]
*Do you remember a case in 1997, where a well known doctor was murdered by her husband behind her practice in Akron, Ohio? Well, the nearly 20-year-old high profile case is being brought back into the courtroom. Dr. Margo Prade was a well-respected physician in Akron, Ohio, at the time of her murder which was [...]
*Last week a chemist in Massachusetts was charged with obstruction of justice after she admitted to rigging drug samples often used to determine the guilt or innocence of defendants in criminal court cases. Annie Dookhan tested more than 60,000 drug samples over nine years at a Boston state lab. While co-workers performed an average of [...]
*The Trayvon Martin family is still living the death of their child every day with investigators continued efforts to prepare for the case with the most information they can gather from that fatal night in February. According to MSNBC, more evidence has been gleaned from the gun George Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon Martin. The [...]
*Everyone is aware that being exposed to violence is physically hazardous to our health. But, we never realized how deep the injuries are until now. There has been a study performed on children to show how their DNA is forever altered by violence. Whether they are the victim or not, the outcome is the same. [...]
*Harlem educator Geoffrey Canada made some startling discoveries in his family tree as part of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” “Every black family believes that they descend from the white man who owned them, and it turns out that we have never tested an African American who was a [...]
*Star magazine recently interviewed a man about the one-time love triangle between his son, his son’s model girlfriend and rap mogul Jay-Z — allegedly. It has long been rumored that Jay-Z fathered a child nine years ago with Trinidadian model Shenelle Scott. But a new twist claims she originally tried to convince her then boyfriend [...]
*The child support case coming out of Houston, Tx. is nothing new within the child support issue. There are plenty of judges who have ruled that the father, because he’s the only father the child has known, must continue to support the child even after it’s determined that the child does not belong to him. (more…)
*Alan Newton is a millionaire eighteen times over. He doesn’t run a corporation. He didn’t invent anything. He didn’t inherit the money either. All the 49-year-old had to do was spend twenty-two years of his life in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Newton is just one of the dozens of men across the [...]
*We may not be aware of all of the genetically engineered food we have been consuming already, but the reports are available anytime you’d like to know. According to CNN they reported that numbers from the Center for Food Safety show that approximately ”45 percent of the corn and 85 percent of the soybeans grown in the United States [...]
*DNA analysis has been taken to a whole new level on the PBS series Faces Of America hosted by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In it the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard explores genetics and ancestral lineage in a way that blends science & history and gives evidence of the cross cultural ties of [...]
*A genetic testing kit is being made available at Walgreens soon. But, it’s not the kind you might think. These DNA tests are not going to clear you as the baby’s daddy or clear your name in a rape case. These tests are what some are calling the future of medicine. According to MSNBC, they [...]
*Oprah Winfrey is saying hell-to-the-naw as far as taking a DNA test to prove she isn’t the daughter of an elderly Mississippi man. Winfrey, who takes her name from her stepfather, Vernon Winfrey, never knew her biological Dad. Recently her life has come under scrutiny in new tell-all book “Oprah: A Biography,” with writer Kitty [...]
*Some South Africans as well as Archbishop Desmond Tutu are among those being studied by genome scientists to discover more about the beautiful secrets of the first civilization. A report in Nature magazine follows these scientists as they have uncovered in their works the massive diversities in the people. Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace laureate and [...]
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