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DNA-Little Mix (Molly cover)
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Life always has been about deoxyribonucleic acid, which commonly is called DNA. Early discussions about DNA were reserved for chemistry labs. However, as our scientific endeavors increased our understanding of DNA, the concept slowly gained in popular reading, and even grade school science books thoroughly cover the topic.

More recently, technical advances have allowed even more practical uses and

applications of technologies that involve DNA. A case in point is that the beef industry now utilizes DNA technology to improve our understanding of beef animals.

To start with, cattle now can be DNA tracked. Just like people, if a cow was somewhere and she left some biological evidence of her presence, such as hair, she can be tracked. The DNA within the hair sample that was found at a previous location could be matched to the particular cow at her current location. Sounds like science fiction, but it is not.

Going even further, parentage can be determined with good probability when DNA samples are available from the potential sire and calves are anticipated to have the progeny of the sire. In fact, some animal breed registries actually require DNA sampling to determine parentage prior to registration.

Although beef registries still are predominately based on paper verification and owner authentication, it is good to know that all future pedigrees can be DNA verified. With the many vials of semen stored in liquid nitrogen around the world, past pedigrees also can be verified.

Again, this sounds like something out of science fiction, but such technology is readily available. The key to the advancement of technology is the ability to implement newer technology at the speed of commerce. Once new scientific findings can be mass produced at the speed of commerce, the marketplace will benefit from the technology.

Just like the many new devices we utilize for communicating with each other, the same is happening in the field of DNA. As beef producers, we just can't see new DNA technology like we can a new cell phone. The bottom line, DNA analysis can be done at the speed of commerce and will improve as time goes on. Therefore, as beef producers, we have access to technology that our predecessors did not. That is good, but the usefulness really rests with our understanding of what the technology is doing.

Let me repeat: Life always has been about deoxyribonucleic acid, which commonly is called DNA. These little pieces or strands are various combinations of four nucleic acids. The strand may be long, but all we need to know is that the strand exists.

What is even more interesting is that these strands make up chromosomes, which are the packages that store the DNA. Store is actually a poor term because DNA is stored and used. In very simple terms, each piece of DNA could be called a gene. These genes vary considerably in DNA length and where the various parts of each gene reside. Even the simplest gene is complicated in that it must be refined and shaped to be effective.

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Beef Talk: It's all about DNA

Published: Jan. 3, 2013 at 6:05 PM

COLORADO SPRINGS, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Police say DNA analysis tied a man currently in prison for sexual assault to the 1976 slaying of Antlers Hotel housekeeper Janet Conrad in Colorado Springs.

Conrad had worked at the hotel for seven years before she was killed Dec. 3, 1976, at age 38.

Investigators had not been able to identify a suspect from the evidence they collected during the initial investigation, but the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the Colorado Springs Police Department Laboratory -- working with a grant from the National Institute of Justice -- identified Robert Baillie, 58, as a suspect, The (Colorado Springs) Gazette reported Thursday.

Baillie -- who is scheduled to be eligible for parole in January 2014 in the sexual assault case -- was arrested Wednesday at the Fremont Correctional Facility in Canon City, the newspaper said.

A co-worker initiated the search for Conrad after the housekeeper seemed to vanish while at work. Conrad's body was found in a linen closet and a subsequent autopsy determined she had been sexually assaulted, beaten and strangled.

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MADISON, AL (WAFF) -

The Alabama soldier arrested in Colorado on kidnapping and other charges in November 2012, is back in custody on charges out of Madison, Alabama.

Aaron Lucas was taken into custody in El Paso County, Colorado, Wednesday afternoon on Fort Carson. Lucas was arrested on charges stemming from a 2007 Madisoncase. The charges on the warrant were enticing a child and sexual abuse of a child less than 12 years of age.

He was booked into the Criminal Justice Center in Colorado Springs without bond as a fugitive from justice.

Lucas was firstarrested on October 23, 2012, in connection with an El Paso County, Coloradokidnapping case and a separate enticement of a child case, each from 2012, as well as for his connection to similar cases from other Colorado jurisdictions.

Madison investigators said DNA evidence links Lucas to a December 2007 case where a six-year-old girl was abducted after getting off her school bus. The attacker then molested her and dropped her off near her home after the attack.

Investigators took DNA evidence at that time, but an arrest was not made.

When Lucas was arrested in Colorado, investigators took a sample of his DNA and ran it through a database. They got a hit on the 2007 case in Madison, and notified Alabama authorities two to three weeks ago.

Madison Police said they don't currently have any more victims, but they aren't ruling out the possibility.

Investigators contacted the Madison victim's family to alert them to the arrest. It's unclear if they still live in North Alabama.

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DNA links soldier arrested in Colo. to Madison sex crime

Ohios state crime labs are processing DNA and other forensic work at a record pace after hiring more lab scientists and reviewing procedures, according to reports from the attorney general and Ohio Highway Patrol.

Attorney General Mike DeWine on Friday released information showing the Bureau of Criminal Investigation lab in London cut the average turnaround time to analyze DNA and forensic biology evidence from 99 days in January 2012 to about 20 in December 2012. The BCI averaged 125 days in December 2010, which DeWine called unacceptable when he began his term in January 2011.

This is a matter sometimes of life or death; this is a matter of protecting the public, DeWine said. If you wait 125 days to get a hit that means that for 125 days that rapist has been loose and maybe we could have caught him.

The turnaround time for the two processes averaged about 62 days during 2012, according to our Columbus bureaus examination of BCI data. DeWine said he did not have information about previous averages. The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reported in 2010 that the BCI averaged 71 days in processing DNA evidence that year.

DeWine did not dispute those numbers, saying the count likely only included DNA processing.

DeWine told reporters that decreasing the turnaround time has been a priority and money from other areas was diverted to fund the changes. The BCI lab added 24 scientists, doubled the number of DNA testing robots from six to 12 and reduced the number of steps to complete analyzing evidence. The BCI lab went from 99 employees at the end of 2010 to 148 today.

If were backed up at the lab, everything else is backed up in the judicial system, DeWine said.

The BCI lab processes about 5,300 cases each month about half the lab work done in the state. DeWine said about 90 percent of the states police departments send work to the BCI for free analysis.

The Ohio Highway Patrol Lab plans to become more efficient using some of the same methods as the BCI lab. Highway Patrol sends DNA evidence to the BCI lab, but analyzes blood and urine samples and identifies drugs and other substances for the patrol and other law enforcement agencies across the state, said spokesperson Lt. Anne Ralston.

The lab reported a backlog of 4,069 cases in August 2011 and a turnaround timeline of 83 days.

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Orb-ish snake-ish ghost that looks like DNA
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Justin Bieber // DNA;
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Revealed DNA - The Next Wave
The documentary highlights many ways that modern DNA technologies are reshaping peoples #39; lives.

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CLEARWATER Detectives used DNA evidence to arrest a man Wednesday in connection with a December attack on a 17-year-old girl who was raped as she walked to her school bus stop.

Dustin M. Kennedy, 28, was taken into custody at the Goodwill Residential Re-entry Center at 16432 U.S. 19 N in Clearwater on Wednesday afternoon.

Pinellas sheriff's officials said Kennedy attacked the girl in the area of Whitney Road and Whitney Drive in unincorporated Clearwater on the morning of Dec. 18.

The attacker grabbed the girl from behind, choked her and dragged her to a nearby ditch. The girl lost consciousness and the attacker raped her, sheriff's officials said.

The attack prompted the Sheriff's Office to increase patrols in the area; some parents also elected to drive their children to their school bus stops afterward.

The Pinellas County Forensic Laboratory later matched a DNA sample recovered after the attack with that of Kennedy, whose DNA information was in a state database.

Kennedy was living at the re-entry facility, which has a contract with the Florida Department of Corrections. The facility is close to where the attack occurred.

Re-entry facilities are designed to help prison inmates become law-abiding members of society, according to the DOC's website.

In March, Kennedy was sentenced to 18 months in prison for burglary and grand theft out of Hillsborough County, state records show. He was scheduled to be released Feb. 13.

Kenney also was in prison from 2005 to 2007 on burglary and grand theft charges.

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Is it just me or does it seem like every new Android smartphone looks almostexactlylike the last new Android smartphone? It sure felt like deja vu all over again when I opened the box that Verizon Wireless sent me a few days ago. Inside was the HTC DROID DNA, their latest and greatest high-end Android smartphone. Is it the same as all the others, or are there a few goodies that make it stand out from the crowd? Lets see

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DROID DNA by HTC Phone Wall/USB Charger SIM Tray Removal Tool Quick Start Guide Global Support Brochure Product Safety & Warranty Guide

Processor:1.5GHz quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor & 2GB of DDR2 RAM Operating System:Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Network:CDMA1x/EV-DO Rev A, LTE/DO Rx diversity,Global Network: GSM (850MHz, 900MHz, 1800MHz, 1900MHz), UMTS (850MHz, 900MHz, 1900MHz, 2100MHz) Memory:16GB internal (actual formatted capacity is less) Display:5 1080P Super LCD3 Corning Gorilla Glass 2 Camera: 8MP Auto Focus RearFacing camera with SingleLED Flash + HTC ImageChip f/2.0 aperture lens on both front and rear cameras, backside sensor illumination for low light performance, and the exclusive HTC ImageChip which allows continuous shooting for up to 99 images 2.1MP 88ultra-wide-angle front-facing with improved low light performance RearFacing camcorder HD capture up to 1080p FrontFacing camcorder HD capture up to 1080p Wi-FI: 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4 & 5 GHz) capable Bluetooth 4.0 NFC Tap and Share with other NFC-enabled devices Headset: 3.5mm Audio Jack Battery:2020mAh Standard LiIon; nonremovable, usage time up to 12.8hrs, standby time up to 14.7 days Dimensions:5.55 (H) x 2.78 (W) x 0.38 (D) inches Weight: 5.0 oz

If your eyes glaze over reading hardware specs, mine do too. But I always include them anyway just because its nice to be able to refer back to them when you need to compare devices. If you didnt read them this time and skipped right down to this sentence, thats perfectly fine. Ill let you know how this phone is different than the other high-end Android phones currently being offered by Verizon. But first lets take a quick tour around the device.

The DNA continues with HTCs typical shiny black top with a matte black back and red accents. There are no physical buttons on the face of the phone. Just 3 touch buttons which are mapped to Back, Home and Recent Apps. Above the gorgeous 5 display, which goes almost to the edges of phone, is a front facing camera and a speaker (for calls). On the back side youll find a soft touch shell with the camera lens, LED flash and a speaker at the bottom. The back of the phone doesnt come off to reveal the battery compartment or a microSD slot. Unfortunately, the battery is not user accessible and there is no memory expansion on this phone. The lack of a microSD slot is a bit of a shocker given that the phone has only 16GB of built in memory. That seems like a low amount given the high-end status.

The left side has what looks like a speaker grill, but its just a style accent.

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