Home
RSSNow, testing for deadly pathogens in food, air and water will no more be a cumbersome and expensive affair. A Michigan State University researcher and his team have made it easier with their new device - it is portable and hand-held device that can...
Related Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
5
Star It 
(2)
AP, Philadelphia
The head of a Philadelphia museum says its sample of Abraham Lincoln’s blood may get DNA testing, but some questions must be answered first.
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Warsaw
Polish prosecutors are raising the death toll from a fire that ripped through a homeless shelter in mid-April to 23 after DNA tests on the victims.
made popular Apr 30 2009
AP, La Crosse
A tobacco chewing habit led to charges against two men accused of stealing a safe that was bolted to the floor of a town of Campbell tavern. A criminal complaint said a...
made popular Apr 21 2009
AP, Rolling Meadows
A judge in Illinois has given prosecutors permission to obtain DNA samples from a man accused of killing three of his girlfriend’s relatives in a Chicago suburb.
made popular Apr 20 2009
AP, Philadelphia
John Sotos has a theory about why Abraham Lincoln was so tall, why he appeared to have lumps on his lips and even why he had gastrointestinal problems.
made popular Apr 17 2009
AP, Darwin
DNA testing confirmed human remains found in an Australian swamp are those of an 11-year-old girl snatched by a crocodile, police said Wednesday.
made popular Mar 18 2009
AP, Washington
The Supreme Court’s conservative and liberal justices appeared divided Monday about giving convicts a constitutional right to test DNA evidence, which for 232...
made popular Mar 2 2009
AP, Anchorage
William Osborne says he’s a victim of mistaken identity and a DNA test would prove it. Alaska prosecutors say his rape and attempted murder convictions are as...
made popular Feb 28 2009
AP, Lima
DNA tests have identified 23 victims from a mass grave in Peru’s southern highlands, a quarter century after they were killed by Peru’s military, forensic...
made popular Feb 25 2009
AP, San Francisco
A British company’s new technique for reading DNA could move medicine a step closer to an affordable gene scan for every patient.
made popular Feb 25 2009
AP, Los Angeles
A former boyfriend of Nadya Suleman wants DNA testing to determine if he’s the father of her 14 children, including her nearly month-old octuplets.
made popular Feb 23 2009
AP, Nashville
DNA from key evidence in a Tennessee woman’s slaying does not match the man who spent more than two decades on death row for killing her, according to new FBI lab...
made popular Feb 20 2009
AP, Rome
The Italian Olympic Committee’s anti-doping prosecutor confronted Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde on Thursday with DNA evidence and documents that allegedly...
made popular Feb 20 2009
AP, London
The spokesman for a 13-year-old who reportedly fathered a child says a DNA test will be performed to identify the dad for certain.
made popular Feb 16 2009
AP, Bloomington
Police believe a church burglary has been solved through DNA found on a half-eaten doughnut. A 22-year-old man was charged with burglary in the January 2007 break-in at...
made popular Feb 12 2009
Dozens of Los Angeles detectives from the LAPD spent weeks going through what was described as a poorly maintained jumble of untested DNA evidence kits going back over...
made popular Feb 12 2009
AP, Decatur
Police in central Illinois say they’ve used DNA testing to determine that a man now dead sexually assaulted and killed two young Decatur girls on Halloween night...
made popular Feb 11 2009
AP, Fond Du Lac
A DNA match has helped detectives arrest a man in the stabbing death of a 19-year-old woman more than three decades ago, apparently clearing a case that has haunted...
made popular Feb 10 2009
AP, Austin
A Texas judge has ordered the exoneration of a man who died in prison while serving time for rape after DNA tests showed another man committed the crime.
made popular Feb 6 2009
AP, New York
It may be futile to try producing stem cells by putting human DNA into cow or rabbit eggs and making hybrid cloned embryos, a strategy that triggered controversy...
made popular Feb 2 2009
All Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
Related Tags
air pathogens Center for Microbial Ecology computer chip Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering DNA DNA biochip food pathogens Technology water pathogens
