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	A Revolution at 50 In the 50 years since Francis Crick and James D. Watson discovered the double-helix structure of DNA, genetics has transformed the world. This special section includes an interactive feature with graphics, audio and a time line.

50 years of DNA science in photos

also April 25 1953 'secret of life'

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Secret of Photo 51 Meet Rosalind Franklin, the unsung heroine behind the discovery of DNA's double helix.

2008

Sunday Aug 3, 2008 Doctor became part of the DNA of his department
Leslie Kovacs was an eminent Hungarian-born endocrinologist who was a pillar of McGill University's Department of Medicine for 50 years and one of the co-founders of the Metabolic Day Centre for diabetic care at the Royal Victoria Hospital.

A Dutch geneticist has become the first woman to have her DNA mapped. Marjolein Kriek, 34, is the fifth person to have their genetic information mapped for scientific study, and says it was high time women took part in mapping the human genome.

Monday 19 May 2008 Tracing the Path from DNA to Dementia
Q&A

Monday 19 May 2008 DNA damage 'caused by pesticides'
Pesticides could have damaged the DNA of people in agricultural communities, new research in India suggests.

Sunday 13 April 2008 Widen DNA dragnet: Blair
About 1 in 250 Canadians have their genetic profiles in a database. Now, Toronto's police chief wants a DNA sample from everyone charged with a serious crime. But critics wonder: Where to draw the line?

Friday Apr 4, 2008 The poop on early North Americans
human remains Fecal evidence pushes back timeline

Monday 31 March 2008 DNA breakthroughs yield results
Detailed, comprehensive gene-hunting technique paying off with a bounty of discoveries

Thursday 17 January 2008 Bloomberg Warns of Spending Cuts on the Horizon
In his State of the City address, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg also called for DNA samples to be taken from every person arrested in New York City.

2007

Sunday 18 November 2007 My Genome, Myself: Seeking Clues in DNA
For as little as $1,000 and a saliva sample, customers will be able to learn what is known so far about how the billions of bits in their biological code shape who they are. Three companies have already announced plans to market such services, one yesterday.
Offered the chance to be among the early testers, I agreed, but not without reservations. What if I learned I was likely to die young? Or that I might have passed on a rogue gene to my daughter? And more pragmatically, what if an insurance company or an employer used such information against me in the future?

Reuters 17 Oct 2007 2:42 page

Oct. 17 - DNA analysis is now available on a consumer level. Ancestry.com and Sorenson Genomics have teamed up to offer DNA results to individuals.
By the end of the year, Ancestry.com will start combining DNA profiles with public records and family trees to take genealogy high-tech.

Saturday 13 October 2007 rci

Saturday 13 October 2007 A poll shows that 56 per cent of French favour the use of DNA tests in cases of proposed family reunions of immigrants to ensure that the newcomers are in fact relatives. Pending legislation offers that possibility on a voluntary basis as a way to hasten the reunion process. Forty-four per cent of respondents to the Opinion Way Institute survey published by le Figaro newspaper oppose the genetic tests. Sixty-nine per cent favour quotas for immigrants authorized to settle in France according to their professions, 31 per cent being opposed.

Sunday 23 September 2007 rci

Sunday 23 September 2007 The legislature on Thursday adopted by a vote of 91-45 a controversial bill on the "mastery of immigration." The legislation contains an "experimental" clause which provides for DNA tests for candidates for family reunion. The clauses specifies that in cases of doubt diplomats can propose to the applicant an additional visa if he or she provides a DNA test carried out at the applicant's own expense. The opposition and human rights groups had criticized the provision, as well as even government members like Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. The law also requires that any person aged over 16 wanting to go to France in a family reunion will have to undergo an evaluation of the person's knowledge of the French language and of the values of the French Republic.

Tuesday 12 June 2007 nyt The Discoverer’s DNA

Tuesday 12 June 2007 nyt < The DNA Age As Breeders Test DNA, Dogs Become Guinea Pigs
...“We’re on the verge of a real radical shift in the way we apply genetics in our society,” said Mark Neff, associate director of the veterinary genetics laboratory at the University of California, Davis. “It’s better to be first confronted with some of these issues when they concern our pets than when they concern us.”

Tuesday 24 April 2007 Ont. calls inquiry into pathologist's work
Ontario will hold a full public inquiry into how and why faulty evidence provided by pathologist Dr. Charles Smith in cases involving child deaths came to be used in the possible wrongful convictions of 13 or more innocent people.

see 57 min - Feb 19, 2006 Charlie Rose - A wide-ranging hour-long conversation with author Michael Crichton. His latest book is "Next".

Monday 19 February 2007 DNA 'bar-codes' help find new species
Canadian scientists have helped create a ‘bar-coding' system for DNA which has already identified 21 ‘overlooked' species

Tuesday 13 February 2007 Human Orgins on Disply
A tour of the new Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Friday 09 February 2007 Who's your daddy's daddy's daddy's ...?
A B.C. DNA lab is mass marketing kits that help you make ancient family connections

Monday 05 February 2007 nyt U.S. Set to Begin a Vast Expansion of DNA Sampling
New rules will allow the collection of DNA from most people arrested or detained by federal authorities.
The Justice Department is completing rules to allow the collection of DNA from most people arrested or detained by federal authorities, a vast expansion of DNA gathering that will include hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, by far the largest group affected.

Jan 20, 2007 Great Britons: How the DNA dude changed life

2006

Monday 11 December 2006 nyt DNA Gatherers Hit Snag: Tribes Don’t Trust Them

What Makes us Different?

Tuesday 03 October 2006
Not very much, when you look at our DNA. But those few tiny changes made all the difference in the world

Saturday 30 September 2006 Milgaard inquiry hears DNA evidence was overlooked
DNA evidence exonerating David Milgaard for the 1969 murder of Gail Miller could have been obtained before the Supreme Court finished reviewing his case in 1992, the Milgaard wrongful conviction inquiry heard Thursday.

Wednesday Apr 12, 2006 nyt Seeking Ancestry in DNA Ties Uncovered by Tests Ethnic ancestry tests are spurring a thorough exploration of the question, What is in it for me?

Wednesday Mar 29, 2006 ts Sex-trade workers give DNA
EDMONTON More than 400 women linked to Edmonton's sex trade have volunteered their DNA to police in order to spare their families the anguish of uncertainty should they go missing.

Sunday Feb 26, 2006 Wed1252

American scientists have discovered how a molecule controls HIV's ability to hijack the genetic machinery of human cells.

The finding gives experts a new target for blocking the virus, according to the journal Nature Medicine

Monday Jan 16, 2006 TORONTO: DNA TESTS CONFIRM EXECUTED MAN'S GUILT DNA tests conducted by an Ontario laboratory have confirmed the guilt of an American man who insisted he was not a murderer right up until his execution in 1992. The Ontario Centre of Forensic Sciences in Toronto concluded there was almost no conceivable doubt that Roger Coleman was the source of the sperm found in the victim. The tests were done at the urging of lawyer James Lockyer of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted. The lab was chosen because of its expertise in the field and its independence from the highly charged case. Coleman was convicted and sentenced to death in 1982 for the rape and murder of his 19-year-old sister-in-law, who was found stabbed and nearly beheaded in her home in Virginia. Initial DNA and blood tests in 1990 placed Coleman within the 0.2 per cent of the population who could have produced the semen at the crime scene. But his lawyers said the expert they hired to conduct those initial DNA tests misinterpreted the results. A finding of innocence would have been explosive news and almost certainly would have had a powerful effect on the American public's attitude toward capital punishment. No executed convict in the US has ever been exonerated by scientific testing.

Sunday Jan 1, 2006 nyt A Light on Justice Denied
A harrowing postscript to official justice is taking place in Virginia, where the discovery of forgotten blood samples has led to modern DNA tests that have already cleared five inmates.

2005

Wednesday Dec 7, 2005 nyt Pushing the Envelope
Gov. George Pataki wants New York to get tougher on sex offenders. But other states have already tried his approach, and run into more problems than expected.

Wednesday Dec 7, 2005 globeN.Y. Governor wants all criminals in DNA database
Albany, N.Y. — Governor George Pataki on Tuesday ordered an expansion of the state's DNA database to include all felonies and misdemeanours, a move expected to add DNA samples from as many as 40,000 more criminals to the system.
With the DNA database expanded to include all crimes, prosecutors would have the option of requiring a DNA sample taken as a condition of a plea bargain, and judges would be able to require DNA samples as a condition of probation sentences.
In addition, the state Parole Board could require DNA samples as a condition of parole, and the Department of Correctional Services could make DNA samples mandatory for participation in its work-release program. [all humans should give samlpes. Spit will do!]

Wednesday Nov 23, 2005 nyt Freed by DNA, Now Charged in New Crime
By MONICA DAVEY
Advocates for the falsely convicted face the uncomfortable consequences of success now that a man exonerated in a sexual assault has been charged with murder.

Monday Nov 7, 2005 Reuters
Genentech (DNA): DNA's fight against disease
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Many biotechnology companies are aggressively seeking ways to treat and cure this scourge of the modern era. One such company was at the beginning of the biotech revolution and it continues to make significant research advances. Genentech (DNA) recently scored on Reuters Select stock screens in three different categories. From the Growth arena, DNA showed up on the screen for Relative Momentum; from the Quality segment, DNA showed up on the screen for Strong Operating Margins; and from the Sentiment category, DNA appeared on the screen for High P/E Multiples. As such, DNA fits in nicely with this week's Reuters Select Top Down article series, which focuses on the Healthcare sector

Saturday Aug 13, 2005 rci DNA evidence in a bag for years
For years, police had evidence that Allan Craig MacDonald was the man who killed Lynda Shaw but it wasn`t until last month that DNA testing proved the convicted killer, who`s been dead for more than a decade, was the prime suspect in the rape and murder of the university student.

Wednesday Aug 3, 2005 byt DNA Tests Come to Prisoner's Defense
By ABBY GOODNOUGH and TERRY AGUAYO
Testimony by eight assault victims sent Luis Diaz to prison for life in 1980. Now DNA evidence that was not available 25 years ago might set him free.

Wednesday Aug 3, 2005 ap
DNA Test Frees Man Nearly 2 Decades Later
PITTSBURGH - During his nearly two decades in prison on a rape conviction, Thomas A. Doswell was denied parole four times because he refused to accept responsibility for the crime. But DNA evidence has finally proved what he's been saying all along: He didn't do it.

Monday Aug 1, 2005 globe: Print a burglar with your DNA: A UK firm called Redweb Security has developed a DNA "tagging" product it calls "i-powder." The theory is that the powder used in Redweb's product carries a "uniquely-traceable DNA code" which is registered to the owner and can be discharged onto a thief from a device mounted in the ceiling, front door or on the wall. The powder is suspended in a red dye and sticks like glue to clothes and skin. Redweb says it can't be removed for several weeks, giving police long enough to track a burglar.

Wednesday Aug 11, 2004 ts
Do more with DNA: Fantino
Canada is "sadly" lagging behind other countries in the use of forensic DNA as a potent crime-fighting tool, Toronto police Chief Julian Fantino told an international conference on sex crimes.

Sunday Aug 1, 2004 cbc
CO-DISCOVERER OF DNA'S DOUBLE-HELIX DIES British physicist Francis Crick, who helped discover the basic structure of DNA, has died at the age of 88.

Monday 29 Mar 2004 cbc
MUTANT MICE SUPPORT AGING THEORY By experimenting with prematurely aged mice, scientists have strengthened the case for a link between aging and mutations. see DNA

Sunday Nov 30, 2003 ts
DNA ties Lindbergh to German family
`Ironclad confirmation' for three siblings
U.S. aviator visited regularly until death in 1974

Friday Nov 14, 2003 bbc
	Scientists use DNA to make virus Researchers have synthesised the genetic blueprint of a virus from bits of DNA.

Thursday Nov 13, 2003 cc
SCIENTISTS MAKE ARTIFICIAL VIRUS OUT OF DNA American researchers have successfully created all the parts of an artificial virus. They hope to use it to clean up pollution and produce energy.

Tuesday, 21 October, 2003 bbc
DNA WARRANTS OK, SAYS SUPREME COURT Police across the country can continue to collect DNA samples from suspects in violent crime investigations after the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the law allowing it. [great news! DTN]

Wednesday Oct 1, 2003 LA MALBAIE: IDEA OF NATIONAL DNA DATABANK TO BE STUDIED
Canada's federal, provincial and territorial ministers responsible for the administration of justice have decided to study the possibility of creating a national DNA databank. The ministers said at their annual meeting, held his year in la Malbaie, Qué., that its purpose would be to enable the families of missing people to find out whether they're dead. Relatives could submit DNA samples of their missing person which would be compared with DNA taken from unidentified human remains. However, Canada's solicitor general, Wayne Easter says the scheme needs further study. One issue concerns people reported missing but who don't want to be found. Mr. Eastern also says there are questions how much it would cost to create a national DNA databank.

Friday Aug 22, 2003 bbc Humans related to humble mud worm
Scientists discover a humble brainless mud worm shares DNA with humans.

Wednesday Jun 25, 2003 cbc LAWYERS, SCIENTISTS WEIGH VALUE OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA The use of mitochondrial DNA evidence is an emerging weapon in the forensic arsenal, but it hasn't yet had its day in a Canadian court.

Friday Jun 6, 2003 cbc
DNA TEST REVEALS ANCESTRY, HELPS HUNT FOR SERIAL KILLER
Investigators in Louisiana used a DNA test to form a picture of an unknown suspect in a series of murders. Scientists say it is the first such use of a test in a criminal investigation.

Monday Jun 2, 2003 bbc
'Powerful' malaria drug developed
Scientists use pioneering DNA techniques to develop a cheap and powerful drug to fight malaria.

Friday Apr 25, 2003 lots of links
	My aunt, the DNA pioneer Stephen Franklin, nephew of Rosalind Franklin, talks about his aunt's role in discovering the structure of DNA.

Wednesday Apr 23, 2003
	DNA: A design icon Denna Jones, curator of the TwoTen Gallery and Contemporary Initiatives at the Wellcome Trust, looks at DNA's iconic status.
	Ivory sales 'risk poaching spree' The selling of ivory stockpiles will trigger a new onslaught by poachers on elephants, conservationists say.
	Stunning creativity of DNA pioneers Professor Adrian Hayday of King's College London tells the story behind the discovery of DNA's structure in 1953.

Tuesday Apr 22, 2003 bbc Stunning creativity of DNA pioneers
Professor Adrian Hayday of King's College London tells the story behind the discovery of DNA's structure in 1953.

Thursday Mar 27, 2003 Police DNA powers 'to be extended'
Police could take fingerprints and DNA from anyone they arrest, even if they are not charged, under new plans.

Wednesday Mar 12, 2003 nyt New Federal Plan for DNA Testing
Facing a huge national backlog of cases, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced plans Tuesday to seek $1 billion over five years to increase DNA analysis.

SCIENCE/NATURE Saturday Mar 1, 2003 bbc
	'Secret of life' discovery turns 50 Science marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark discovery by Crick and Watson of the structure of DNA.

2001

12/Jan/2001 Biotech firm clusters Linux servers for disease research
Galileo Genomics builds massive database of related DNA samples

12/Jan/2001 RESEARCHERS REVEAL FIRST GENETICALLY MODIFIED PRIMATE
His name is ANDi - "inserted DNA," spelled backwards. And he's the first genetically modified primate in the world.

2000

Sat 12/30/00 'The language that made life' By: CHARLES SHANNON In the competition for science story of 2000, no recount will be needed. At a June 26 ceremony to mark the successful mapping of the human genome, U.S. president Bill Clinton declared, "Today we are learning the language in which God created life." High-flown hyperbole, but not far off. The instruction book for making a human being, with the subtle variations that differentiate each individual, is encoded in more than 3 billion pairs of molecules, divided among 23 separate strands called chromosomes, inside every human cell.

Tue Oct 31, 2000 Scientists close to mapping male gene
Three geneticists in the U.S. are on the verge of decoding malehood – the Y chromosome.
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