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Female DNA found on the Boston bomb
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Female DNA on bomb? The FBI took DNA samples from the wife of suspected Boston bomber Tamerian Tsarnaev Monday.

By Eric Tucker and Michelle R. Smith,Associated Press / May 1, 2013

FBI agents investigating the Boston Marathon bombings have visited the Rhode Island home of dead suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's in-laws and carried away several bags.

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CNN says at least one bag was labeled DNA samples. The Wall Street Journal, citing an anonymous source, said the discovery of "female DNA" on the remnants of the pressure cooker bomb raised the idea that the two brothers may have had an accomplice.

FBI spokesman Jason Pack confirms agents went to the North Kingstown home of Katherine Russell's parents Monday. Russell is Tsarnaev's widow and has been staying there.

Russell didn't speak as she left her attorneys' office in Providence. Attorney Amato DeLuca says she's doing everything she can to assist with the investigation.

Attorneys have said Russell and her family were in shock when they learned of the allegations against her husband and brother-in-law, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a gunbattle with police. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction.

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Female DNA on bomb? FBI checking suspects (+video)

WASHINGTON, May 1 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say DNA research suggests cancer treatment will increasingly focus on its genetic fingerprint rather than on the organ where it originated.

The findings come out of research in a large-scale project by the National Institutes of Health to analyze DNA mutations in common cancers, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

One finding was that, genetically, endometrial cancer, a cancer of the uterine lining, closely resemble ovarian and breast cancers, suggesting future therapies could focus on the possibility the three forms of the disease might respond to treatment using the same drugs, researchers said.

The similarity between breast, ovarian, and endometrial tumors strongly suggests cancers can be more usefully classified by their gene mutations than by where they originate, said Jeff Boyd, executive director of the cancer genome institute at Fox Chase Cancer Center who was not involved in the NIH study.

"It is very rewarding -- I can't overstate it," he said of the research that validated a view already held by many scientists with real-world data.

Knowing which genes are mutated in particular cancers could allow researchers to investigate drugs or treatments that target those genes, researchers said.

"We have the basic playbook," study leader Timothy Ley of Washington University in St. Louis said. "We finally know what the major pathways are and what all the major mutations look like."

"Within two or three years, risk assessment may be dramatically better," he said. "It certainly sets the stage for the next era of therapy."

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Evelyn, left, and Terry Jackson, parents of Kay Lynn Jackson, comfort daughter Jennifer Lay at a press conference Wednesday announcing that charges have been filed against Patrick Jon Zacharias in the 1998 rape and slaying of their daughter, Kay Lynn Jackson.

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The Idaho State Police's efforts to eliminate an evidence backlog pays off in the solving of a grisly slaying.

BOISE For 15 years, Boise Police Detective Mark Ayotte has kept Kay Lynn Jackson's files on his desk. He felt the unsolved murder as a heavy and constant weight.

In 1999, Ayotte told the Idaho Statesman that he had faith that DNA evidence would one day lead to her killer.

Ayotte's DNA prophecy proved true. After more than 1,000 leads came up empty, it was a DNA "profile" that finally broke the case, police said Wednesday.

"We have been waiting 15 years for this day," said Deputy Chief Pete Ritter.

State police scientists have spent the past couple of years entering a backlog of DNA samples from Idaho criminals into a national database. They got a hit on one of the samples; on Monday, a grand jury indicted Patrick Jon Zacharias, a state prison inmate, in the 1998 rape and murder of Jackson.

The 22-year-old was killed on April 5, Palm Sunday morning, under the Americana Boulevard Bridge. She was walking to church after getting off work.

Zacharias, 40, has been in prison since February 2007, serving a life sentence for lewd conduct with a girl under 11. He was transferred on Tuesday to the Ada County Jail, where he was served an arrest warrant and charged with rape and first-degree murder. He is scheduled for arraignment Friday.

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Wanessa - Murder (Oficial Video DNA Tour)
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DNA of a Dangerous Church - Series Opener
What makes a church dangerous? We are... Willing to take a risk Willing to follow where our convictions lead Willing to put our faith into action, our money ...

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Breaking: Female DNA Found on Boston Marathon Bomb Components
FOX News reported tonight that the FBI confirmed FEMALE DNA was found on the Boston Marathon bomb components.

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Wanessa fala com o Papelpop sobre DNA Tour
Conversamos com a cantora Wanessa sobre a turn, o DVD e o CD novo, cantora pop internacionais, maternidade e vdeos polmicos na internet.

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(PIX11) DNA found on a bomb fragment from the Boston Marathon bombings has become the new focus in the investigation.

Dr. Lawrence Kobilinksy, the head of the science department at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, believes that the female DNA found on that fragment of the pressure cooker bomb used to kill three and maim and injure 264, was probably not a victim, but more likely created by someone who either came into contact with the bomb: an accomplice, or someone who sold a part of the bomb-making material or someone who had indirect contact.

That means that the bombmaker could have shaken hands, for example, with a woman, and her skin cells could be transferred to the bomb.

Yesterday the FBI took DNA samples from Katherine Russell, the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the brother who was killed in a shootout with police. They also took DNA from their three year old daughter.

In another high-profile case, DNA from the piece of plane believed to be part of the 9-11 attack on the World Trade Center is now being analyzed. Dr. Kobilinksy says DNA can survive for a very long time, and under great duress.

If bone fragments are found, investigators will grind them up, and try to match the DNA to a database.

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Investigators have found female DNA on a fragment from one of the two bombs used in the attack on the Boston Marathon two weeks ago, according to a U.S. official briefed on the probe.

The genetic material may have come from a number of sources and its discovery doesnt necessarily mean that additional people were involved beyond the two brothers suspected in the bombing, said the official, who asked not to be identified in discussing an open case.

The DNA find emerged as authorities continue to investigate whether the suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, had help in planning or carrying out the April 15 attack. So far, according to a second U.S. official who asked not to be identified, theres no evidence of such assistance.

Among those under scrutiny is Tamerlans wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation visited her parents home in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, yesterday and took a DNA sample from her, according to one of the U.S. officials briefed on the probe.

Amato DeLuca, a lawyer for Katherine Tsarnaev, said in an e-mail yesterday that she was continuing to assist in the investigation in any way she can. Last week, he said in an interview that she knew nothing about the attacks beforehand and was as shocked as anybody when they happened.

Jason Pack, an FBI spokesman, declined to say whether Katherine Tsarnaev was cooperating voluntarily and said that the bureau cant discuss specific aspects of the case.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a police shootout April 19. He and his brother are suspected by U.S. authorities of setting off the bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line that killed three people and wounded 260.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was apprehended on April 19 after a manhunt that paralyzed the Boston metropolitan area. He was found hiding in a boat in the backyard of a Watertown, Massachusetts, home and taken to the hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds.

The younger Tsarnaev, now being held at a federal prison west of Boston for inmates needing medical care, is charged with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction.

As part of the investigation, the FBI wants to interview family members including the suspects parents, who are in Russia, said an official familiar with the probe who asked not to be identified. Friends, associates and others who were part of the suspects lives are also being sought for interviews, the official said.

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