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"People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think."
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Pakistani authorities will perform DNA testing on the remains of the suicide bomber who rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle in the country’s northwest, killing five Chinese nationals and their local driver, officials said Wednesday.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has a DNA sample of a possible match to a baby found floating in a bag in the Mississippi River in 2011.
Previous estimates put children born of incest at 1M, but it's really one in 7,000. Babies born of incest are prone to birth defects, heart problems, cystic fibrosis. READ MORE:
Government declared last year that more than 100,000 samples may need to be re-tested Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastQueensland has passed laws to ensure its forensic testing service is independent and impartial after failings led to thousands of DNA samples having to be re-tested.Potential problems with the Forensic Science Service first came to light as a result of the Australian’s podcast series...
ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) - The Elmira Police Department says it received a grant to pay for "advanced DNA testing and analysis" in the 1964 unsolved killing of Mary Theresa Simpson. The 12-year-old's body was found on a hill, covered in rocks and debris, four days after she was reported missing. Nobody was ever arrested or []
A feckless father faked a paternity test over his newborn son in a bid to avoid £20,000 in child maintenance payments by using his uncle's DNA.
Two Canadian men, Richard Beauvais and Eddy Ambrose, both 68, learned they were switched at birth almost after taking a home DNA test in 2020. Beauvais, believed he was indigenous but was actually Ukrainian-Jewish, while Ambrose believed he was the opposite until a 2022 DNA test. Despite the mix-up, Beauvais and Eddy Ambrose have bonded over their shared twist of fate as well as receiving an apology for the trauma they endured
Universities across the country have decided to reintroduce requirements for undergraduate applicants to submit ACT or SAT scores. This comes after institutions previously claimed that such tests contributed to inequality in higher education, according to Fox News Digital.David D. Schein — a professor and associate dean at the University of St. Thomas in Houston — said that standardized testing is a way for institutions of higher learning to compare students. He went on to say that while...