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THIEF William Lockley was caught after breaking into a shop when his DNA was found on a pair of pliers.

DNA taken from a pair of pliers found at a shop which had been burgled, led officers to arrest William Lockley.

North Staffordshire Justice Centre heard the owner of the Butty Box, in Uttoxeter Road, Longton, found the door had been damaged and a security camera and jar of loose change was missing when she arrived at work.

Steve Knowles, prosecuting, said the owner discovered a pair of pliers, which didn't belong to her.

He said DNA from them led police to Lockley, of no fixed address, was arrested when his DNA matched but refused to comment . The defendant declined to comment when he was interviewed.

He later pleaded guilty to that between March 7 and March 9 this year at Longton, he entering as a trespasser the Butty Box as a trespasser and stealing the camera and change together worth 500.

The defendant also asked for an offence of stealing five sirloin steaks, four rump steaks and three lamb steaks worth 75 from the Co-op, Normacot, to be taken into consideration. He was jailed for a total of 16 weeks.

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March 24, 2015

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DNA from mammoths found in Arctic permafrost has been inserted into the genes of modern-day elephants, bringing the extinct mammal one step closer to roaming the Earth once again.

According to The Sunday Times, Harvard University genetics professor George Church and his colleagues took 14 genes from a well-preserved mammoth specimen and integrated them into an elephant, where they functioned as normal DNA.

Those genes, which were for traits that separated mammoths and elephants (such as hair and ear size) were replicated and inserted into the elephant using a precision-editing technique known as Crispr, which allowed them to replace sections of elephant DNA with mammoth genes.

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We prioritized genes associated with cold resistance including hairiness, ear size, subcutaneous fat and, especially, hemoglobin [the blood molecule that carries oxygen around the body], he explained. We now have functioning elephant cells with mammoth DNA in them. We have not published it in a scientific journal because there is more work to do, but we plan to do so.

Im bringing mammoths backyeah.

Mammoths are closely related to Asian elephants, but the species died out during the last Ice Age, with the final members of the species surviving on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until roughly 3,300 years ago, according to The Telegraph. The DNA used by the Churchs team and was obtained from these carcasses, which were well preserved by the permafrost.

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FINALLY: Mammoth genes inserted into elephant DNA

A group of researchers are getting closer to bringing the extinct woolly mammoth back to life. Geneticist George Churchs lab at Harvard University successfully copied genes from frozen woolly mammoths and pasted them into the genome of an Asian elephant.

Using a DNA editing tool called CRISPR, the scientists spliced genes for the mammoths small ears, subcutaneous fat, and hair length and color into the DNA of elephant skin cells. The tissue cultures represent the first time woolly mammoth genes have been functional since the species went extinct around 4,000 years ago.

The research has not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal because there is more work to do, Church told the U.K.s Sunday Times, but we plan to do so.

The work is part of an effort to bring extinct species back from the dead, a process called de-extinction. The recent breakthrough shows that one proposed de-extinction method--which involves splicing genes from extinct animals into the genomes of their living relatives--just might work. But don't believe the headlines suggesting woolly mammoth cloning is just around the corner. Church explained to Popular Science that theres a lot more research to be done.

Just making a DNA change isnt that meaningful, says Church. We want to read out the phenotypes. To do that, the team needs to figure out how to take the flat hybrid cells from a petri dish and coax them into becoming specialized tissues--such as blood cells or liver organoids--then test to see if they behave properly. For example, do the mammoth hair genes lead to hair that's the right color, length, and woolliness?

If those tests go well, the team hopes to turn the elephant/mammoth skin cells into hybrid embryos that can be grown in artificial wombs, devices that allow for pregnancies outside of an animal's uterus. Artificial wombs are pretty speculative at this point, but the alternative--implanting the hybrids into the wombs of female elephants--is unsavory to animal rights activists as well as geneticists. Its going to be more humane and easier if we can set up hundreds of [embryos] in an incubator and run tests, says Church.

If they can get the hybrid creatures to survive, the project's first goal will be to engineer an elephant that can survive in cold temperatures. The team thinks that expanding the elephants range into colder climates could help keep it away from humans and the conflicts that are threatening to make Asian and African elephants extinct. Later, after the engineered elephants gain a foothold, Church says the team will try to revive the mammoths by integrating higher amounts of mammoth DNA into the hybrids.

Of course, it's possible the mammoth genome will never be completely reconstructed, and the creatures will only remain elephant/mammoth hybrids. But if it looks like a mammoth and fulfills the same ecological functions as a mammoth, is it a mammoth? What even is a mammoth, anyway?

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Italian Supreme Court about to rule on guilt orinnocenceof Knox, 27, and her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for murder of Meredith Kercher Professor Peter Gill has analyzed the disputed evidence - DNA found on a kitchen knife and on Kercher's bra clasp 'The evidence is weak. What I'm saying is there are possibilities of transfers, of contamination,' the professor tells Daily Mail Online His book 'Misleading DNA Evidence: Reasons For Miscarriages Of Justice' has been used by Sollecito's legal team in the latest appeal Knox denies murdering Kercher, a British exchange student in Perugia, in what prosecutors say was a sex game gone wrong

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Published: 18:18 EST, 24 March 2015 | Updated: 04:30 EST, 25 March 2015

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One of the worlds leading DNA experts, who has extensively investigated the murder of Meredith Kutcher, has claimed the forensic evidence against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito is incredulous and made up by prosecutors.'

Knox, 27, and Sollecito, 30, stand accused of killing the British student in Perugia and, on Wednesday, the Italian Supreme Court will either uphold or quash their convictions.

Professor Peter Gill, a lecturer of Forensic Genetics at Oslo University, Norway, looked in-depth at the DNA results from the crime scene using the originally analysis by the Italian Police Scientific Department and also a second independent analysis ordered by the judge in the first appeal.

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Professor Gill admits that the evidence against Knox and Sollecito is very weak and and compares it to something out of the fictional CSI TV series.

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