jueves, 28 de agosto de 2008

New DNA kit is used by the Indiana Police

This article I founded in Indystar.com and its about a DNA kit that help to the police for get more clues for the crime scene...

>> Metropolitan police are testing a new DNA-collection kit that could help them put more gun criminals behind bars.

About 200 officers have been trained to collect DNA from guns while the evidence is still fresh using the Trigger ID kits.

"We're here today to put those with illegal firearms on notice that we have a new tool which can lead to better identification of suspects and their subsequent removal from our streets," Chief Michael Spears said in a statement. "IMPD is proud to be a pioneer in the use of this new technology."

Laboratory tests of the kits show scientists often can find DNA on a gun more readily than they can find a fingerprint, said Vincent Perez, a vice president for Forensic ID, the Indianapolis-based manufacturer of Trigger ID.

"Fingerprinting is 100 years old," said Perez, who also invented the product. "Now, when we look at it and the technology we've developed, it's allowed us to move with the times and get better evidence at the scene."

Perez, a lawyer and former police officer, got the idea for the kits while he worked at Strand Analytical Laboratories, the DNA testing venture launched by former Marion County Prosecutor Scott Newman in 2005. Newman gave up his operating interest in the lab when Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard appointed him public safety director in January.

The Police Department is spending $140,000 to $160,000 for 400 kits, officials said. The money is coming from a federal grant.

The kits include three ballpoint pen-sized plastic cases that contain cotton swabs. After finding a gun at a crime scene, an officer opens the cases, rubs each swab across three different parts of the gun -- pistol grip, barrel and magazine -- then closes the cases and stores them in an evidence bag.

The officers received an hour of training in proper collection techniques and must wear gloves and a breathing mask to avoid compromising any DNA that might be recovered.

The department has been using the kits about two months, but officials are not saying exactly where the devices have been deployed.

Officials hope the kits will lead to more arrests and prosecutions of those who commit gun crimes.

"Firearms cases are very difficult," U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison said. "If a gun is found laying 4 to 5 feet from somebody, . . . no one is going to claim it."

Morrison was among a group of local law enforcement experts Perez asked to help develop the device. Others included Prosecutor Carl Brizzi and Forensic Services Agency Director Mike Medler.

Helen Marchal, Brizzi's chief of staff, said she expects defense attorneys to try to challenge the kits but thinks judges will stand behind the evidence.

"It's not new science, it's a new collection process," Marchal said. "I'm confident we will withstand any challenge."

The Trigger ID kit is small enough to fit in an officer's pocket. The swabs are designed to collect DNA specimens from handguns in rain, snow or other harsh conditions.

Indianapolis is the first department to use the devices in the field, Perez said.<<

jueves, 14 de agosto de 2008

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News: Best selling author to send DNA to the space

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug 14, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Operation Immortality(TM), the project to create a digital time capsule of the human race, has joined forces with famed author and game designer Tracy Hickman. Hickman is best known for his work on the Dragonlance novels and the innovative Ravenloft module of the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons game system. As part of Operation Immortality's mission to preserve the most talented and influential people of our time, Tracy Hickman will be sending his digitized DNA into space with video gaming luminary Richard Garriott as he travels to the International Space Station (ISS) on Oct. 12, 2008.
Hickman will not only be adding his digitized DNA to the "Immortality Drive," excerpts of his writings will also be included on the storage device Garriott will store on the ISS as part of Operation Immortality. The Immortality Drive is currently in the process of being loaded with information from people all over the world at the OperationImmortality.com website. Hickman will be talking about the project as he addresses crowds at the Gen Con gaming convention today in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Visitors to the website can submit their suggestions for humanity's greatest achievements, leave their immortalized message for future generations, and may even have their DNA selected to join Garriott and other luminaries on an out-of-this-world trip to possibly become the future of mankind.

Garriott is a game developer at NCsoft(R) and creator of the Ultima series of games and the recently released Tabula Rasa(R). The goal of Operation Immortality is to have a space-borne record of human DNA and a record of humanity's achievements in the event a global calamity dooms the human species, similar to what happens in the Tabula Rasa video game.
"Mankind is at its best whenever we set our vision to the stars," Hickman said. "One of my first memories was of watching Alan Shepard fly his Mercury capsule atop a Redstone rocket. I have lived my entire life dreaming of space. 'Operation Immortality' is essentially a celebration of that same adventuring spirit and an offering of hope for the future. I am deeply honored to participate."

The Tabula Rasa team is thrilled by Hickman's participation in Operation Immortality. "Looking back to the influences that impacted my career, Tracy Hickman's Chronicles series left a lasting impression on me," said Tom Potter, Tabula Rasa's lead designer. "His novels were my first exposure to epic fantasy, and even though I read them at an early age, the setting and characters he created still continue to influence me all these years later."

News: Big Foot was captured and they have DNA evidence

Washington (ChattahBox) - Two professional American hunters have claimed to have found the dead body of the real Bigfoot. The body has since been placed in a freezer for storage, as they get set to present photos, and DNA evidence at a press conference tomorrow.

Matthew Whitton, a police officer in Clayton County, Georgia, and Rick Dyer, a former corrections officer made the discovery in the woods of Georgia.

The two professional hunters may have managed to actually unravel one of the biggest mysteries known to man, whether or not the legendary forest creature Bigfoot is real.

The two have set up a major press conference which will take place tomorrow, Friday in Palo Alto, California.

DNA, as well as photos of this legendary creature are going to be on display for the world to see.

The two stated on their Web site, SearchingForBigfoot.com, that they have discovered the body.

They stated that they had to put the creature in the freezer to keep it “fresh.”

They claim that Bigfoot is 7 feet, 7 inches tall, and weighs in at more than 500 pounds.

He had reddish hair, as well as gray eyes. His footprint is reportedly 26-and three quarter inches long, and five and three-quarter inches wide..

Veteran Bigfoot hunter Tom Biscardi has seen the body and has stated that it is genuine.

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