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Court DNA Ruling Good Result, Bad Argument
The Hartford CourantLast week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, notwithstanding the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and searches without a warrant based on probable cause, states can require that a DNA sample be taken from those arrested for...Tags: Crimes, Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court, Samuel A. Alito, Antonin Scalia
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Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it
Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones — potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe...
Tags: Fiction, Liberty Bell, Arts and Culture, Star Trek: The Next Generation (tv program), Inner Harbor
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Murals At Comstock, Ferre & Co. In Wethersfield Add To Living Museum
The Hartford CourantGiant red onions, golden pumpkins and oblong Blue Hubbard squash are sprouting from the walls of the Comstock, Ferre & Co. seed company in Old Wethersfield. No, the heirloom seed company, one of the oldest in the United States, hasn't figured out how to...Tags: Science and Technology, Arts and Culture, Pumpkin, Arts, Chemical Industry
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DNA: a test for justice
In two courts, half a country apart, judges last month grappled with the reliability of testimony and forensic hair evidence analysis that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents provided in criminal trials decades ago. John Norman Huffington, imprisoned...Tags: Murder, Trials, Lawyers, Prisons, U.S. Department of Justice
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Connecticut Plaintiff Hails Ruling On Human Genes Patent
The Hartford CourantThe U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday to invalidate a Utah company's long-held patents on genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer is expected to result in the test's being more accessible to women, at a lower cost, experts say. The court's 9-0...Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Medical Research, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Health Insurance
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Letters: DNA collection done right
Re "Court goes too far on DNA," Editorial, June 4 The U.S. Supreme Court got it absolutely right in finding that it is constitutional for DNA to be collected at the time of arrest and checked against a national database of unsolved cases. The Times'...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Chemical Industry, U.S. Supreme Court, Laws
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DNA testing isn't like taking fingerprints
The Sun's reasoning regarding the recent ruling on DNA collection is severely flawed ("Court is right on DNA," June 4). DNA is not 21st-century fingerprinting, and it does more than identify a person. It's likely there is yet undetermined information...
Tags: Chemical Industry
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Japan stops importing U.S. wheat on concerns over genetically modified crops
Japan, the largest market for U.S. wheat exports, suspended imports from the United States and canceled a major purchase of white wheat on May 30 after the recent discovery of unapproved genetically modified wheat in an 80-acre field in Oregon. How...Tags: Science and Technology, Agricultural Research and Technology, Elections, Food Industry, European Union
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Mississippi aims to curb teen pregnancy with umbilical blood law
ReutersBy Emily Le Coz JACKSON, Miss., June 7 (Reuters) - Mississippi will require doctors to collect umbilical cord blood from babies born to some young mothers, under a new law intended to identify statutory rapists and reduce the state's rate of teenage...Tags: Lawyers, Sex Crimes, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Crime, Law and Justice, Rape
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Prosecutors: West Side man was on PCP when crash killed 13-year-old
Tribune reporterBail was set today at $700,000 for a man charged in a May 2012 hit-and-run crash that killed a 13-year-old West Side girl. Ronald J. Tenard, 25, has been charged with two felony counts of aggravated DUI in the death of Sade McGee, who died after a May...Tags: Drunk Driving, Motorvehicle Accidents, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Hospitals and Clinics
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FDA grants priority review status to Gilead's hepatitis C drug
ReutersJune 7 (Reuters) - Biotechnology company Gilead Sciences Inc said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted priority review to its experimental hepatitis C drug sofosbuvir. The FDA grants priority reviews to medicines that are considered...Tags: Science and Technology, Bristol Myers Squibb Company, Chemical Industry, Food and Drug Administration, Biotechnology
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