World’s First ‘Three-Parent Baby’ is Born
The world’s first “three-parent baby” was born in Mexico using a gene combination technique performed by a New York team, according to a report in New Scientist released Monday.
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Kuwait Imposes DNA Testing on All Citizens, Visitors
Kuwait will begin enforcing a security law this year that will make it the first country in the world to require DNA samples from all citizens and visitors.
Chinese Scientist Plans to Clone a Million Cows per Year
A Chinese company called Boyalife Genomics is planning to open a factory the size of three football fields in Tianjin this year, and what they’ll be manufacturing is… cows. Clone cows. 100,000 of them per year to start, but company founder Xiao-Chun Xu dreams of cranking that production level up to a million per year.
Experts Say King Tut’s Wet Nurse May Have Been His Sister
TEL AVIV – Experts are now saying that Maia, Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun’s wet nurse, may have actually been his sister Meritaten. Egyptian officials and French Egyptologist Alain Zivie on Sunday unveiled Maia’s tomb to journalists ahead of its public opening next
NYT: DNA Is Said to Solve a Mystery of Warren Harding’s Love Life
WASHINGTON — She was denounced as a “degenerate” and a “pervert,” accused of lying for money and shamed for waging a “diabolical” campaign of falsehoods against the president’s family that tore away at his legacy.
Reports: DNA of Escaped Convicts Found in Hunting Camp 25 Miles West of Dannemora Prison
Items found in a burglarized hunting camp 25 miles west of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York have been tested and contain the DNA of two killers who escaped on June 5, news reports say.
Cornyn Holding Hearing on Rape Kit Backlogs; Democrats Complain About Committee Name
When Senate Republicans changed the name of the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights to the simpler Subcommittee on the Constitution this past January, Democrats pounced, claiming that the name change meant that Republicans did not care about civil rights or human rights. Wednesday, the Subcommittee, led by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), will hold its first official hearing on a human rights issue that should be supported by Democrats: the testing of the nationwide backlog of rape kits.
