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In a step forward in stem cell research, scientists have created the cells by combining a human egg with skin-cell DNA. However, this doesn't eliminate the need for more controversial embryonic stem cell research. More »
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A man who allegedly masturbated on three women in crowded New York subway trains in 2002 and 2005 has finally been arrested after police identified his semen. More »
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A man dubbed the "night stalker" will finally be punished for raping hundreds of elderly people in their London homes, despite police errors and a bizarre defense involving his ex-wife planting his semen at various crime scenes. More »
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Another day, another story about thousands of rape kits lying untested, this time throughout Texas. After years of decrying these lapses, will anything be done to ensure justice? One major activist is actually optimistic that this year will bring change. More »
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To help solve sexual assault cases, researchers have developed a new forensic technology that will identify condom residue in a fingerprint. Alert SVU. More »
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Amanda Knox's lawyer thinks DNA evidence found on the knife Knox allegedly used to kill her roommate in 2007 was inconclusive. Experts will now take 90 days to review the evidence. Meanwhile, her stepfather says she's "doing well" but "apprehensive." More »
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Now you can blame your parents for all those one-night stands you've had. According to a new study, a tendency toward promiscuity lies partially in genetic make up. And all this time, jerks were saying you just had low self-esteem. More »
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A new study shows that small-dog DNA is most similar to grey wolves from Israel, Iran and India. This story notes: "like wheat, monotheism and the cat, small dogs… are Middle Eastern." Thousands of years ago, that is. [New Scientist] More »
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Relationship expert Jenni Trent Hughes: "We may no longer be knights in shining armour or damsels in distress, but we still want and need romance - it is part of our emotional DNA." [Independent] More »
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• Design teacher Yuri Suzuki has created this truly awesome breakfast machine, which automatically cooks omelets from scratch, toasts bread, and brews fresh coffee. Suzuki says he was inspired by Hollywood films, including Back to the Future. •  More »
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A new study suggests that transsexualism and gender identity development may be ingrained in our genetic makeup. A DNA analysis of 112 male-to-female transsexuals found that most had a longer version of the androgen receptor gene—a genetic trait that is associated with "less efficient" testosterone signaling. Recently, studies have found a biological basis for transsexualism in some people, including a study that found male-to-female transsexuals have a more "female like" brain structure. [BBC] More »
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Want to look into the eyes of our female ancestors? Meet Wilma, the first model of a Neanderthal based on DNA evidence and created by artists and scientists for the October issue of National Geographic. Wilma's creators used replicas of pelvis and skull bones from Neanderthal females as well as re-sized copies of male bones to create a replica skeleton. Wilma was also given red hair and pale skin to fit with recent findings that some Neanderthals were of the ginger variety (she was named after the redheaded Flintstones character). [Daily Mail & chiKa project] More »
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Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss, who graduated from high school this year, have discovered that not all sushi fish is labeled properly. It started over dinner: Katie's dad, Dr. Stoeckle, works with DNA bar coding. "Could you bar code sushi?" Katie asked. He replied, "Yeah, I think you could — and if you did that, I think you’d be the first ones." Katie asked Louisa to help collect her samples. As Dr. Stoeckle put it, "It involved shopping and eating, in which they were already fluent." They went to 4 restaurants and 10 grocery stores in Manhattan, then sent tiny pieces of fish off to a lab in Ontario. Two of the 4 restaurants and 6 of the 10 grocery stores had sold mislabeled fish. White tuna turned out to be Mozambique tilapia. Roe supposedly from flying fish was actually from smelt. (And so on.) Know what you're getting, don't let your sushi chef off the hook! [NY Times, Reuters] More »
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Scientists have completed the first sequencing of a woman's DNA. (Four male genomes have already been sequenced, the first in 2001.) The DNA belongs to Dr. Marjolein Kriek, a clinical geneticist at Leiden University Medical Centre. Professor Gert-Jan B van Ommen, leader of the team working on the project says, "If anyone could properly consider the ramifications of knowing his or her sequence, it is a clinical geneticist." The sequence mapping or decoding is important, van Ommen says, because, "While women don’t have a Y-chromosome, they have two X-chromosomes. As the X-chromosome is present as a single copy in half the population, the males, it has undergone a harsher selection in human evolution." It must be noted, however, that before scientists mapped a female genome, they sequenced the DNA of about a dozen mammals, including chimpanzees, dogs, cats, cows and a platypus. [Time, Science Daily] More »
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The AP is reporting on a new study proving that nearly all of today's Native Americans — in North, Central and South America — can trace their ancestry back to 6 women. The women left a particular DNA legacy, passed only from mother to daughter, and immigrated to North America between 18,000 and 21,000 years ago. But the six "founding mothers" didn't live in Asia, because the DNA signatures they left behind aren't found there. Most likely, they were from Beringia, the now-submerged land bridge that's between what are now Siberia and Alaska. Any Native Americans reading? My mom's half Chickasaw, yo! [Brietbart] More »
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• Jennifer Aniston just says no to that more rotund Vince Vaughn and picks herself up a male model named Paul Sculfor (who we show you almost-nudie, to the left) to date instead. [People.com]

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