Author name: Roderick Caruana

The trial of 51-year old construction worker, Bobby Jo Hatchcock, took a peculiar turn after a jury failed to reach a unanimous decision. Hatchcock has been on trial for the murder of a New York back in 1997. Broome County Court Judge Martin Smith declared a mistrial after the jurors admitted to failing to reach …

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Private detectives hunting the whereabouts of Madeleine McCann are hoping to use DNA testing to determine whether pedophile Raymond Hewlett was involved in the little girl’s disappearance.

Keanu Reeves has undergone a DNA paternity test and has been cleared of the paternity claim made by a Canadian woman earlier in May this year. The alleged children are all in their mid-twenties and the woman claims the two were childhood friends.

An independent review request by the defense on the grounds of contamination of DNA forensic samples in the Meredith Kercher murder has been rejected.

Post-mortem DNA testing has been carried out on Osama Bin Laden (1957-2011). The man behind the heinous attacks on the New York Twin Towers and possible several other terrorist attacks has been killed in his hide-out in Pakistan in an operation carried out by Americans that was so secret that not even the Pakistani government knew.

DNA testing will be used in court to support the case against 7 men from the state of Texas who are being charged with raping an 11 year old girl. DNA Testing is being carried out by the DPS the Texas Department of Public safety and all forensic DNA evidence is being taken into account for the case.

We know that a non invasive prenatal DNA testing can reveal a lot about genetic predisposition to disease and can moreover, even help to determine paternity.

A contentious legal contest is shaping up in the Sunshine State to try and halt the DNA testing of anyone arrested – however not yet convicted – of a felony. The challenge to California’s state law comes on the heels of a recent Supreme Court ruling allowing a similar law in Maryland to continue. In the 5-4 ruling by the high court, the constitutionality of Maryland’s law to collect DNA samples from those arrested for a felony investigation as part of their routine booking process, was narrowly upheld. While the Maryland law is different in that it only targets those being arrested for felonies, it created a baseline for which many states are moving to vastly expand DNA testing for law enforcement use in the wake of the ruling.

The Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States has enacted a major blow to DNA health testing by ordering the popular 23&Me company to halt sales of their home testing kits to the public. The company has received lots of media attention mostly due to its connection to internet giant Google by way of a previous marriage between Google founder Sergey Brin and 23&me’s founder Anne Wojicki. The billion dollar behemoth of the internet world is said to have supplied millions of dollars in seed money to launch the home-based DNA testing business.