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5,200 Victims of Srebrenica Genocide DNA Identified

The bones are from more than 8,000 men and boys slaughtered in 1995 during the Bosnian war at Srebrenica in the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.

About 5,200 people out of the 8,000 executed at Srebrenica have been identified with the help of ICMP, but new mass graves continue to be found and more remains are delivered to the facility in Lukavac to be matched.

Evidence gathered by the ICMP about the Srebrenica genocide could also be used against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who is set to face trial at The Hague, accused of ordering the massacre.

Genocide In Srebrenica Dna Evidence Of At Least 8,000 Victims

According to the director general of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), Kathryne Bomberger, DNA evidence proves that no less than 8,000 people died during the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. Here is a short excerpt followed by a link to full article...

America's Judicial System 'Antagonistic' - OhmyNews International

According to blaring tabloid headlines, five Black and Latino teenage boys had been accused of gang raping Meili and then beating her head and body to a bloody pulp with a rock. Allegedly, the teenagers had engaged in marauding behavior called "wilding" during the hours before the attack her. Police revealed videotaped confessions that captured the young men offering details of the crime during an interrogation session at a police station in the park.

European court to consider DNA database - UPI.com

LONDON, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Two men have asked the European Court of Human Rights to order their DNA and fingerprints removed from the British police database.

Jack Worthington Claims He is the Secret Love Child of JFK

Vanity Fair is said to be putting together a feature article detailing Jack Worthington s claim that he is the love child of the late President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Worthington is a successful businessman who, until a short time ago, was unaware of this revelation.

The bugs that came in from the cold

Locked in ice for millions of years, Antarctic bacteria are thawing and they're alive. So will a prehistoric plague be swimming in a sea near you?

DNA - The Colbert Report

When a tanker truck full of Formula 401 jackknifes, Stephen decides to learn more about DNA.

Manchester University helps with pharaoh DNA analysis

Preliminary results from DNA tests carried out on a mummy believed to be Queen Hatshepsut is expected to support the claim by Egyptian authorities that the remains are indeed those of Egypt s most powerful female ruler. Egyptologists in Cairo announced last month that a tooth found in a wooden box associated with Hatshepsut exactly fitted the jaw socket and broken root of the unidentified mummy.

DNA exonerates man who served 25 years

The exoneration is the United States' 200th based on DNA evidence, according to the Innocence Project in New York, a nonprofit group that works to exonerate wrongly convicted inmates. Check out the map - 28 freed in Texas after DNA evidence came to light.

Scientists decode macaque genome

Are genetic defects - remnants? The geneticists found some instances where the normal form of the macaque protein looks like the diseased human protein. One example found is phenylketonuria (PKU) which can lead to brain damage and mental retardation because the human lacks an important enzyme.

Baby DNA idea sparks new concerns

This promises to be a fascinating debate: "However Liberty Legal Officer Anna Fairclough said: "A proposal like this begs the question - do we really want to turn a nation of citizens into a nation of suspects?"

Man Executed in 1992 to Have DNA Test

AP - Gov. Mark R. Warner on Thursday ordered DNA evidence retested to determine whether a man convicted of rape and murder was innocent when he was executed in 1992.

Mammoth DNA could spark resurrection

Cool, mammoth's coming back to life at a zoo near you.