The Houston Police Department's DNA lab was shut down in December 2002 after widespread mistakes.
The DNA lab, on the third floor at FBI headquarters, got the dress on July 30.
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Maybe because the CSI labs always get it right, and in real-life Boston, there's a DNA lab where things do not go right all the time.
He took the mailed threat and brought it to a DNA lab, which discovered that the culprit had accidentally sneezed on one of the letters.
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"All profiles must be uploaded and the failure is not acceptable for a world-class DNA lab that prides itself on accuracy and attention to detail, " the lab said.
Earlier this year, in a Forbes issue focused on the burgeoning consumer genetic industry, I wrote a small piece on the possibility for surreptitious DNA testing, i.e. someone sending your genetic information to a DNA lab without your knowledge.
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Another debacle, this time involving DNA testing: Josiah Sutton served four and a half years for rape after the Houston Crime Lab tied him to crime-scene DNA. The lab was later found to be rife with problems, including a leaky roof that let rainwater contaminate evidence.
After some lab work, the DNA was dispatched to an EMBL lab in Heidelberg, Germany.
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After reading online about genetic research, Ms. Dewey-Hagborg joined Genspace, a New York genetics laboratory, and brought samples she found on Brooklyn streets into the lab for DNA extraction.
It is a division of Bio Pet Vet Lab, which first introduced DNA testing as a way for adopters or dog rescuers to establish the lineage and breed components of their dogs through DNA testing.
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Patsalis of the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics said his team is developing a noninvasive method to test for Down syndrome by comparing fetal DNA to the mother's using standard lab equipment, instead of pricey gene-sequencing gear.
It consisted of three men and three women in their twenties, who were eating sandwiches and grapes in the kitchenette of a cramped office, above a lab that was packed with a DNA synthesizer, a flow cytometer, and other equipment.
Using free software (developed by my lab), you can scan that DNA for mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2.
GenVault keeps a copy of the rice DNA sequences and plate numbers as a backup if the lab workers fear an identity mix-up.
Dr Lucy Webster, who is co-ordinating the government-funded science from a lab outside Edinburgh, usually spends her time investigating DNA at wildlife crime scenes.
Still, the spokesman added, police are sending DNA evidence from this case and 26 others to a private lab for testing under a grant from the Justice Department.
The DNA sequencing and the data analysis will be compliant with regulations for lab diagnostics.
DNA. That is one of the projects Dr Romesberg's lab is working on.
GenVault keeps a copy of the rice DNA sequences and plate numbers as a backup, in case the lab workers fear an identity mix-up.
So lab workers must slog through two weeks of tedious preparation, chopping the DNA into fragments 500 to 1, 000 letters long and making millions of copies of each.
Thus the genome project would come to rely on new machines from lab equipment maker Applied Biosystems, which industrialized the process of counting these DNA letters, using tiny glass tubes that sorted DNA fragments by length.
Caves were thought to be essentially devoid of life until six years ago, when the renowned University of Colorado microbiologist Norman Pace, also an avid caver, discovered a way to identify extremophile microorganisms by cloning and sequencing unique sections of their DNA. Prior to Pace's work biologists had fruitlessly tried to cultivate these microorganisms with traditional lab techniques using nutrient-rich petri dishes.
The team, led by Giulia Biffi, a researcher in Balasubramaninan's lab, produced antibody proteins that were designed specifically to track down and bind to regions of human DNA that were rich in the quadruplex structure.
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