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XNA-Sytnthetic DNA is Here Jan 28 2015
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"Five suspects have already undergone DNA tests but their DNA did not match that of the attacker," Office of Police Forensic Science acting commissioner Pol Lt General Manu Mekmok said yesterday.

Manu said police believe a serial rapist may be responsible for 10 rapes between 2010 and this year. Two of the victims were also killed.

DNA test results for seven rapes - including a sexual attack early on Sunday - have confirmed the rapist was the same man. The results for other cases will be available soon.

Manu said the 10 rape cases had some similarities. For example, they happened in the wee hours and clear fingerprints and footprints of the attacker were found at each scene.

The Criminals Database Operating System has, so far, not provided any match for fingerprints of the serial rapist that police took from crime scenes.

"We have checked with the database in our bid to solve these cases fast," Manu said.

Meanwhile, director-general of the Mental Health Department, Dr Jedsada Chokdamrongsuk, said his department would help analyse the mental condition of the serial rapist if requested by police.

"Available information suggests he does not suffer psychosis. But he may have paraphilia (an atypical sexual perversion) or just sexual preferences," he said.

Jedsada revealed that he had already instructed the Galya Rajanagarindra Institute, which is under his department's supervision, to prepare a diagnosis if police make a request.

The institute's director, Taweesin Visanuyothin, suggested that the serial rapist might have a form of gerophilia, or sexual attraction toward a much older person.

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DNA tests clear five men suspected of being serial rapist

More than three decades after an elderly widow was found raped and murdered in her Louisville, Kentucky, home, investigators say they've linked the crime to a family friend through old DNA evidence.

Police arrested 71-year-old Jerry Lee Weatherford at a long-term healthcare facility on Monday, charging him with the August 1980 killing of Harriet Hardy, 87, NBC affiliate WAVE 3 reported. Weatherford had been a prime suspect at the time of the murder, but there was not enough evidence to indict him, police said.

But a Louisiville Metro Police cold case unit recently went back through the files, found DNA collected from the crime scene and from Weatherford, and sent it to a lab for testing methods that were not possible during the original investigation. His DNA was not on any criminal databases because he had no prior record, police said. Now his DNA will be used to check for links to other unsolved crimes.

Jerry Lee Weatherford

First published January 27 2015, 11:24 AM

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DNA can help guide the conservation of rare species

DNA analysis is helping conservation biologists reintroduce genetic variation in populations of wild African cheetahs and other endangered wildlife. Credit: Ed Yourdon, Flickr CC

Dear EarthTalk: How are scientists using DNA to conserve wildlife? -- Jake Summerlin, Newark, NJ

Traditionally, conservation biologists have relied on field observation and sample and statistical analysis to help them understand the dynamics behind species loss, but today genetics is taking on an increasingly important role in helping quantify the biodiversity around us and even save some threatened species.

According to researchers at King Saud University who reviewed various DNA analysis technologies used in wildlife conservation for the Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, the newly emerging discipline of conservation genetics has proven instrumental in creating better management plans for so-called genetically deteriorated wildlife populations. Accurate classification of these threatened species allows understanding of the species biology and identification of distinct populations that should be managed with utmost care. They add that DNA analysis can be instrumental in preventing illegal hunting and poaching and for more effective implementation of the laws for protection of the endangered species.

Conservation genetics is particularly useful for clarifying whether a particular wildlife population needs special protection as a genetically distinct sub-species. According to Susan Haig of the U.S. Forest Service, conservationists are using DNA analysis to determine kinship lineage in selecting which individuals to reintroduce to a population for recovery. DNA sequencing procedures ... allow for identification of parentage, more distant relatives, founders to new populations, unidentified individuals, population structure, effective population size, population-specific markers, etc. reports Haig, adding that the result is more sophisticated information crucial to setting species recovery priorities.

One way genetics is being used is to help endangered African cheetahs. The 10,000 that are left share 99 percent of their DNA between individuals, reports biologist and blogger Christina Smyth, adding that the low genetic diversity makes the cheetah population highly susceptible to disease and extinction. By using genetic analysis to look at how closely related individual cheetahs are, cheetah breeding projects are able to breed selectively as an attempt to reintroduce genetic variation back into the population.

Another favorite example of Smyths is how geneticists are helping estimate past population sizes of whales to help manage and conserve current populations. They are using current levels of genetic diversity along with known mutation rates to look at what the whale population was like before whaling. So far their numbers have increased previous estimates by up to ten times! These numbers could completely change our thoughts and approaches to whale related conservation and management.

The non-profit Revive and Restore is best known for its advocacy of so-called de-extinctionthat is, bringing back extinct wildlife species and reintroducing them to the landscapes they used to call homebut also aims to provide genetic assistance to existing threatened wildlife species.

Endangered species that have lost their crucial genetic diversity may be restored to reproductive health, reports the group. Those threatened by invasive diseases may be able to acquire genetic disease-resistance. The group is hoping to apply what it learns from a pilot project restoring genetic diversity to an endangered population of black-footed ferrets to other species recovery efforts.

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Better Living through Conservation Genetics