Miss. law requires cord blood from some teen moms
If a girl younger than 16 gives birth and won’t name the father, a new Mississippi law — likely the first of its kind in the country — says authorities must collect umbilical cord blood and run DNA tests to prove paternity as a step toward prosecuting statutory rape cases.
Miss. court gives Manning OK to pursue DNA test
The Mississippi Supreme Court has given death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning the chance to argue before a judge for DNA and fingerprint testing that he alleges will show him innocent in the deaths of two college students.
DNA clears suspect in cold case murder
DNA test results have confirmed that suspected serial killer Felix Vail is not the killer of two women in Starkville’s unsolved 1990 Labor Day murders.
Letter from DNA discoverer to be auctioned in NYC
NEW YORK — Sixty years ago scientist Francis Crick wrote a letter to his 12-year-old son saying he and a colleague had discovered something “very
Huge DNA code of the Christmas tree being revealed
To millions of people, the Christmas tree is a cheerful sight. To scientists who decipher the DNA codes of plants and animals, it’s a monster.
In New York City, identifying the dead, and finding closure
On a wind-swept island off New York City, the remains of 850,000 people rest in pine boxes in a grid of covered trenches — but many are not resting in peace.
Body found in February identified
Skeletal remains found Feb. 14 in Oktibbeha County have been identified as those of a man who had been missing about 11 years.
DNA test should ID rape suspect
Starkville police hope by the end of the week to have a positive identification of the man wanted for an attempted sexual assault on University Drive.