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First CRISPR study inside the body to start in US
Patients are about to be enrolled in the first study to test a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR inside the body to try to cure an inherited form of blindness. […]
First CRISPR study inside the body to start in US
Patients are about to be enrolled in the first study to test a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR inside the body to try to cure an inherited form of blindness. […]
Texas says DNA technology jeopardizes cases
With a name that sounds like futuristic fiction, Rapid DNA machines roughly the size of an office printer have helped solve rape cases in Kentucky, identified California wildfire victims and […]
Texas says DNA technology jeopardizes cases
With a name that sounds like futuristic fiction, Rapid DNA machines roughly the size of an office printer have helped solve rape cases in Kentucky, identified California wildfire victims and […]
Western District remands Ancestry suit for arbitration
A case alleging Ancestry.com’s DNA service violated the privacy of its users is heading to arbitration following a Western District Court of Appeals ruling on May 28. A three-judge panel […]
Appeals court denies Prewitt DNA testing
A woman serving a life sentence for the 1984 murder of her husband — and who maintains her innocence — will not get a chance to test newly discovered evidence […]
DNA frees man convicted of 1983 rape
Robert E. Nelson left prison on Wednesday after a Jackson County circuit judge threw out his nearly 30-year-old conviction.
Criminal Law: Death Sentence – Vacated Convictions -Invalid Sentencing Factors
State v. Bowman (MLW No. 62068/Case No. SC90618 – 38 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Teitelman, J.; Price, C.J., Russell, Breckenridge, Fischer and Stith, JJ., concur; Wolff, J., concurs in part and dissents in part in separate opinion filed; Stith, J., concurs in opinion of Wolff, J.)
Criminal Law: Closing Argument – Limitation -Teddy Bear
State v. Dickson (MLW No. 61983/Case No. SD30159 – 22 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Burrell, J.)
Criminal Law: DNA Testing – Post Conviction – Failure To Make Findings
Belcher v. State (MLW No. 60019/Case No. SC89589 – 6 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, per curiam, all concur) Where a defendant who pleaded guilty in a rape case sought […]
Supreme Court remands DNA testing case
A Livingston County judge erred in denying post-conviction DNA testing to a man sentenced to life imprisonment for rape, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in an unsigned opinion this afternoon. […]
DNA: New methods look deeper into DNA
DNA is an area where scientists and the technology they rely upon are constantly pushing into new frontiers. Among them is mitochondrial DNA testing. No caselaw on it exists yet […]
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