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New Zealand bill proposes compulsory paternity tests

Tuesday 8 April 2008 @ 12:37 pm

A new bill would allow courts to order compulsory DNA testing of children for paternity checks, regardless of consent.


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Scientists create three-parent embryos

Tuesday 5 February 2008 @ 1:45 pm

LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have created human embryos with three parents in a development they hope could lead to effective treatments for a range of serious hereditary diseases within five years.


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M. lax jogs to help innocent prisoners

Monday 10 December 2007 @ 1:05 pm

Seligmann, the former Duke lacrosse suspect who was vindicated earlier this year, will be jogging for the Brown team’s fall charity project: a 36-hour run-a-thon to raise funds for the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exonerating innocent prisoners through DNA testing.


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Man wrongly convicted of rape as teen is set free

Saturday 27 October 2007 @ 10:51 am

Eugene Ivory Henton, who was wrongly convicted of a rape more than two decades ago and has never lived it down, is finally a free man.


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Innocent man shares his 20-year struggle behind bars

Thursday 25 October 2007 @ 12:20 pm

Sitting in the flashing glow of Atlanta squad car lights along Georgia State Road 400, the 23-year-old part-time house painter didn’t know police were looking for a rapist who had struck nearby three weeks earlier. Police questioned — and then arrested Williams, triggering a series of mistaken witness identifications that led to his unjust conviction for rape, kidnapping and aggravated sodomy.


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Citing DNA, court vacates sentence of man in rape case

Friday 21 September 2007 @ 12:05 pm

FORT LAUDERDALE - After more than 19 years in prison, Larry Bostic on Friday walked out of a Broward County courtroom a free man. Bostic, now, 51, was happy and philosophical about his release on a rape charge after test results showed his DNA does not match evidence from the crime.


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