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When Mission resident Glenn Wells submitted his DNA to Ancestry.ca in 2018, he didnt expect a family reunion years after the results.

Wells spent time in the foster care system growing up, and had been looking for his father. Four years later, by chance, hes going to meet a new uncle, cousin, and his mom will be connecting with her long-lost half-brother for the first time in over 60 years.

I was crying because I was able to provide my mom with some happiness, he said. She was totally beside herself, and it was all she could think about.

On March 20, Wells received a message from the other side of Canada from Courtney Mahler. Mahler lives in Brantford, Ontario, and is helping her father in-law, Harry Mahler, dig for answers regarding his biological parents.

Harry, 74, has had some health problems as of late, and decided to submit his DNA to Ancestry several months ago. The result came back on March 18, and Wells name came up as a 12 per cent match.

Harrys adoptive parents never told him the truth about exactly where he came from, according to Courtney, adding he suffered a lot of hardships growing up.

They never actually came out and told him he was adopted. He just always had questions, because it didnt make sense, she said. And then later on in life, he actually located the adoption papers (and birth certificate) in his adopted parents home.

The documents list May Simm as his mother.

After receiving the DNA results, Courtney reached out to Wells on Facebook, not knowing if he was Harrys cousin or nephew. They spoke by phone shortly afterwards, and Wells told her his grandmothers name was May Simmons.

He then asked his mother, Violet, if she knew someone named Harry from Brantford.

Violet is 77-years-old and her memory is not always reliable, according to Wells, but a light went off in her head when he mentioned that name.

She goes: Oh my God! I think I have a half-brother in Brantford! Wells said. She said: Ive not seen him since I was a teenager.

Harry did, in fact, remember meeting Violet and May growing up, but he had no idea how closely related they were, according to Courtney.

She said they visited Harry a couple of times when he was a teenager, but his adoptive family told him Violet was a cousin, and Mays relation was never explained.

Courtney and Harry are continuing to try and piece everything together. She said they dont know why Harry was given up and Violet was not, and May had been married several times.

After his adoptive parents passed, Harry came into possession of some old black and white photos.

One photo shows a woman now confirmed to be May with a man they suspect to be Harrys father. Another shows the same man in military uniform with a baby girl, who they suspect is Violet. Wells said Violet was also placed in group homes growing up. He said he was as well, and so were older kids, who are now adults.

Its been a vicious circle for that kind of stuff, but its stopping here, Wells said of his 10-year-old daughter. Im breaking that cycle right now, this little girl is about to be a black belt in Taekwondo.

Wells is travelling to Ontario to see his mom,Violet, on May 18 for her birthday, something he does every year.

But this time, Courtney is bringing Harry, and her husband, Jon Wells new first cousin.

(Harrys) very excited about it, Jon said. Our goal was to get him the truth before his time.

Theyve also made contact with the family of the mystery man in the black and white photos, and will be meeting with them soon.

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DNA evidence from a welding glove left at the scene of a 2020 burglary in Delmont led to the arrest of a Washington Township man on Monday.

Jesse T. Noble, 26, was charged with burglary, receiving stolen property, criminal trespass, criminal mischief and possession of instruments of crime in connection with a December 2020 burglary at Fletchers Outdoor Equipment on Route 66.

On Dec. 4, 2020, Delmont police responded to a burglar alarm at Fletchers and arrived to find a door at the back of the building with a smoking hole in it that appeared to have been made by some kind of welding torch.

Officers followed boot prints from Fletchers to the woods behind the building, where they found that a generator, saw and two chain saws had been taken from the business. They also found a welding torch and black welding gloves and were able to confirm the use of a torch through security video from Fletchers. A Westmoreland County K-9 helped officers track the boot prints across Route 66 back to a home on the 300 block of Freeport Street, where it appeared the thief had gotten into a vehicle and left.

During the investigation, Delmont officers received a call from nearby Washington Township police, who had just arrested a suspect Noble matching the description of the man who had broken into Fletchers. Delmont police went to Nobles house on Spring Hill Road in Washington, where officers saw several torch welding cables in plain view next to the house, along with boot prints similar in design and tread to those at the scene of the burglary.

A search warrant for Nobles home turned up boots and clothing matching the burglar in the security footage, and officers also seized a set of welding cables. Security footage from a nearby church in Delmont, as well as from license plate recognition readers in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties, appeared to link Nobles vehicle to the scene.

Finally, DNA testing matched Nobles DNA to a sample found inside the left welding glove recovered from Fletchers.

Delmont police Chief T.J. Klobucar said he appreciated the patience Fletchers had as the case progressed.

Sometimes it takes time and investigation, gathering evidence so we can make a solid arrest like this, Klobucar said.

Noble was arraigned Monday and faces an April 5 preliminary hearing in District Judge Charles Conways Export court.

Patrick Varine is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Patrick at 724-850-2862, pvarine@triblive.com or via Twitter .

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The New York City Police Department surreptitiously took DNA samples from more than 30,000 people and kept them in a database, a lawsuit from the Legal Aid Society shows.

Once the DNA profiles are stored in the database, the department uses them in genetic lineups, comparing them to samples from previous and future crimes.

The legal advocacy group has filed a federal lawsuit demanding the NYPD removes the DNA profiles and eliminate the database, which attorneys say disproportionately targets Black and brown people.

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Thousands of New Yorkers, most of whom are Black and brown, and many of whom have never been convicted of any crime, are illegally in the Citys rogue DNA database, which treats people as suspects in every crime involving DNA, Phil Desgranges, a supervising lawyer in Legal Aid Societys Special Litigation Unit of the Criminal Defense Practice, said.

State law requires police to get a court order or a conviction before someones DNA can be kept in a state database. However, New York Citys Local DNA Index System includes DNA from more than 31,800 people who were questioned or arrested but never convicted.

NYPD detectives are instructed to offer water, soda, gum, food, or a cigarette to secure DNA samples for testing. Given that 75 percent of the people arrested in the city over the past decade reportedly have been Black or Latino, The New York Times estimates that the database most likely reflects the same racial makeup.

The NYPD said the database is vital in solving crime. Civil rights advocates say potential errors could increase the chances of wrongful convictions.

You can change your Social Security number if youre a victim of identity theft. You cant change your DNA, Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, told the paper. Youre creating this constant threat not for months, not for years, but the rest of your life, that you can be targeted by this information.

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One of the plaintiffs, Shakira Leslie, alleges she was traveling in a friends car when police found a gun in another passengers bag during a traffic stop. Leslie was arrested and taken to the station for questioning, where after several hours, detectives offered her a cup of water.

She was released and a gun possession charge against her was dropped. Leslie told reporters she was shocked to find out later that police used the cup to collect her DNA.

I completely lost trust for NYPD, Leslie said.

After a sample is collected by detectives, it is stored by the medical examiners office in the database. The medical examiners office said it operates according to scientific standards and the law.

The NYPD announced plans in February 2020 to discard samples more than two years old if the person is not part of an investigation or convicted of a crime. Legal Aid accused the city of moving at snails pace.

Politico reports that even though more than 1,000 samples were removed from the database a year later, another 2,849 were added. The New York Times reports that 4,000 profiles have been removed since 2020.

NYPD also promised to limit the DNA collection from minors, who currently only have DNA taken if theyre suspected of serious offenses. The New York City Council is reportedly expected to reconsider a 2020 measure that would prevent police from obtaining DNA samples from minors without an adults consent.

NYPD officials in 2019 said the process helped solve about 5,000 crimes in five years.

The driving motivation for the NYPD to collect DNA is to legally identify the correct perpetrator, build the strongest case possible for investigators and our partners in the various prosecutors offices and bring closure to victims and their families, NYPD spokesperson Sgt. Edward Riley said.

Legal Aid has named the city, the police department and the medical examiners office in the lawsuit. The group fears the database also lacks independent oversight.

This database operates virtually unchecked, and despite promises from the city to reduce its size, the database has continued to grow at the expense of communities of color, Desgranges said. We simply cannot trust the NYPD to police itself, and we look forward to judicial review of these destructive practices to bring our clients the justice they deserve.

More crime-fighting technology may be on the way for New Yorkers.

New York Mayor Eric Adams has proposed the use of facial recognition tools amid rising crime in the city. Adams announced the proposal in his plan in January to target gun violence. Facial recognition works by matching stills from video footage to images already in a database.

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All those movie Batmen have the impressive costumery and in some cases the cool, bat-based toys and those pricey Batcave living quarters, and sometimes there even are some actual bats hovering aboutbut as far as I can recall, none of em has ever injected himself with actual bat DNA like Dr. Michael Morbius. I mean, talk about a guy who has earned the twisted right to call himself Batman!

But hes not The Batman, hes the titular character of Morbius, a second-tier MCU movie with some interesting performances and a few flashes of inspiration that unfortunately never goes deeper than superficial storytelling and grows increasingly tiresome over the relatively brief running time (1 hour, 48 minutes) before it reaches a predictable, underwhelming conclusion. (Even the two brief mid-credits scenes teasing the further adventures of Morbius are less than stirring.)

Jared Leto, who has never met an accent, a wig, a prosthetic, a dramatic weight loss or a Method role he couldnt sink his teeth into, actually plays it somewhat straightforward and grounded as Michael Morbius, a brilliant scientist who invented an artificial blood that has saved more lives than penicillin, or so were told at a Nobel Prize ceremony. (Distractingly, another character calls it the Noble Prize, not once, but twice, in the next scene.)

Looking like hes been pounding at deaths door since last winter, Michael is suffering from a rare and fatal blood disease, and despite the financial backing of his lifelong friend Milo (Matt Smith), who has the same condition, Michael been unable to come up with a cureand time is running out for the both of them.

Cue the bats! As Michael explains to his longtime associate and potential love interest, Dr. Martine Bancroft (Adria Arjona), certain types of bats are the only creatures that can survive by consuming only blood, so if Morbius injects himself with vampire bat DNA, maybe thatll fix him up real good! (Man, I dont know. Even the likes of Seth Brundle from The Fly and Dr. Norman Osborn aka Green Goblin might think that was a bat-bleep crazy idea.)

With Milos backing, Michael builds a lab on a tanker that will sail international waters off the East Coast (what with this process being illegal and all), with Martine onboard to aid with the experiment and a bunch of armed henchmen along for the ride in case things go awry.

Spoiler alert: Things go awry.

Within moments of receiving the injection, Michael is transformed into a howling, fanged, clawed, bloodthirsty beast who wreaks havoc before jumping off the ship and returning to New York City. (Manchester, Englands, Northern Quarter doubles for New York, but theres never a certain sense of place and time about this film. It seems self-contained and smallish. We never get the sense the good people of New York are truly interconnected with The Vampire Murderer, the lackluster term assigned to Michael by the tabloid press.)

Michaels transformation and subsequent, periodical returns to normal human form seem more wolfman-like than vampiric, as he doesnt have the usual aversion to sunlight, fear of garlic or holy water, etc., etc. For the time being, Michael is able to sustain himself on artificial blood, but the window in which he remains human is tightening, meaning its only a matter of time before hell have to resort to guzzling the real deal.

Ah, but Michaels old friend Milo has no such moral qualms. Against Michaels warnings, Milo has injected himself with the vampire bat DNAand he immediately turns into a killing machine who embraces his role as a super-sucking, super-villain. Dancing about with a hairdo and wardrobe that conjures up images of David Bowie in his Lets Dance period, bellowing statements such as, I am resurrected!, Matt Smith as Milo gives a terrifically over-the-top performancebut theres never any explanation for why Michael would be so conflicted and torn about his transformation, whereas Milo would suddenly turn into a psychopath. He seemed like a really good guy before he, you know, shot up bat DNA.

Morbius friend Milo (Matt Smith) embraces villainy after a transformation of his own.

The great Jared Harris does what he can with an underwritten role as Emil Nikols, the obligatory Kindly Mentor to both Milo and Michael, while Tyrese Gibson and Al Madrigal are stuck playing cynical, bantering NYPD detectives who ask questions straight out of the Law & Order playbook and are always showing up at the scene of the crime and shaking their heads at the carnage.

As for the action sequences: When Michael Morbius flies around the city, he often leaves a smoky trail of blue or orange in wake, like a gender reveal where they ordered the wrong colors, and the big finale is shot in dizzying closeups, edited in headache-inducing fashion and is often murky. It looks like Morbius might soon cross paths with Spider-Man in one universe or another, but that would be a big step up for him, because his introductory vehicle feels more like a just-average 1990s vampire movie.

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Gingko Bioworks (NYSE:DNA) stock is up more than 10% today after its latest earnings report.

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Ginkgo Bioworks reported that its fourth-quarter 2021 revenue increased 363% year over year to $148 million, which beat the $94 million forecast of Wall Street analysts. However, the company reported a net loss from operations of $1.7 billion.

Still, the company guided that its expects full-year 2022 revenue to be between $325 million and $340 million. This also came in higher than analyst estimates of $306 million. Ginkgo Bioworks is focused on building a platform to enable customers to program cells as easily as computers.

Year to date, DNA stock is down 57%. Heres where three analysts see the share price headed in coming months.

DNA stock is rising today on strong forward guidance and an improving financial picture at the tiny biotechnology firm. Among seven professional analysts who cover the company, the median price target on the shares is $12, implying 180% upside over the next 12 months.

On the date of publication, Joel Baglole did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article.The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the InvestorPlace.comPublishing Guidelines.

Joel Baglole has been a business journalist for 20 years. He spent five years as a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal, and has also written for The Washington Post and Toronto Star newspapers, as well as financial websites such as The Motley Fool and Investopedia.

Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2022/03/is-dna-stock-a-buy-after-earnings-3-analysts-weigh-in-on-gingko-bioworks/.

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Fertility Test Market - Global Outlook & Forecast 2022-2027" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

In-depth Analysis and Data-driven Insights on the Impact of COVID-19 Included in this Global Fertility Test Market Report.

The growing awareness about fertility test and greater access to treatment is one of the major factors driving the global fertility test market growth. Fertility test industry is growing at a healthy rate during the forecast period.

Over the past few years, the fertility test industry has been growing at a healthy rate on account of rising awareness regarding fertility testing, increasing maternal age of women in developed and developing regions, rapidly increasing infertility population across the globe, and awareness among the adult population.

According to this market research report the fertility test market by revenue is expected to grow at a CAGR of around 7% during the period 2022-2027.

The Ovulation test kit segment dominate the market with high market share. Smart Phone based sperm analysis is an emerging trend in the global fertility test market. Use of AI in sperm analysis will boost the market growth.

Based on distribution channels, the market is segmented into online sales channels, retail pharmacies, and hospitals pharmacies. In 2021, the online sales channel segment witnessed the highest market growth and is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 7% during the forecast period.

Vendor Analysis

The fertility test kit manufacturers are trying to achieve a high market share with different revenue generation strategies. Some of the sperm test kit manufacturing companies include swim count, advacare, DNA Diagnostics Centre, Hamilton Thorne, Home Health, Give Legacy. These companies deliver high-quality sperm test kits in domestic and international markets, and will achieve a higher share in the upcoming time in the fertility test market.

Prominent Vendors

The Report Includes:

1. The analysis of the global fertility test market provides market size and growth rate for the forecast period 2022-2027.

2. It offers comprehensive insights into current industry trends, trend forecast, and growth drivers about the global fertility test market.

3. The report provides the latest analysis of market share, growth drivers, challenges, and investment opportunities.

4. It offers a complete overview of market segments and the regional outlook of the global fertility test market.

5. The report offers a detailed overview of the vendor landscape, competitive analysis, and critical market strategies to gain competitive advantage.

Key Topics Covered:

1 Research Methodology

2 Research Objectives

3 Research Process

4 Scope & Coverage

4.1 Market Definition

4.2 Base Year

4.3 Scope of the Study

5 Report Assumptions & Caveats

5.1 Key Caveats

5.2 Currency Conversion

5.3 Market Derivation

6 Market at a Glance

7 Introduction

7.1 Overview

8 Market Opportunities & Trends

8.1 Technological Advances in Male Fertility Tests

8.2 Smartphone-Based Sample Analysis

9 Market Growth Enablers

9.1 Increasing Maternal Age

9.2 Surge in Infertility Rates Worldwide

9.3 Rising Awareness of Fertility Tests

10 Market Restraints

10.1 Lack of Accuracy in Available Fertility Tests

10.2 Low Awareness & Acceptance of Fertility Tests

11 Market Landscape

11.1 Market Overview

11.2 Market Size & Forecast

11.3 Five Forces Analysis

12 Products

12.1 Market Snapshot & Growth Engine

12.2 Market Overview

12.3 Ovulation Test Kits

12.4 Fertility Monitors

12.5 Sperm Test Kits

13 Gender

13.1 Market Snapshot & Growth Engine

13.2 Market Overview

13.3 Female

13.4 Male

14 Distribution Channels

14.1 Market Snapshot & Growth Engine

14.2 Market Overview

14.3 Online Sale Channels

14.4 Retail Pharmacies

14.5 Hospital Pharmacies

15 End-users

15.1 Market Snapshot & Growth Engine

15.2 Market Overview

15.3 Homecare

15.4 Specialty & Fertility Clinics

15.5 Hospitals

16 Geography

16.1 Market Snapshot & Growth Engine

16.2 Geographic Overview

17 North America

18 Europe

19 Apac

20 Latin America

21 Middle East & Africa

22 Competitive Landscape

22.1 Competition Overview

22.2 Market Share Analysis

23 Company Profiles

24 Report Summary

24.1 Key Takeaways

24.2 Strategic Recommendations

25 Quantitative Summary

26 Appendix

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Ralph Musson survived the Bataan Death March in the Philippines 80 years ago this April, enduring the brutal trek as hundreds of his fellow soldiers perished along the way.

Akron relative Jay Musson knows that much about the relative he never met. He also knows his cousin twice removed died later in a prison camp, succumbing to malaria on June 30, 1942.

It's a slice of family history Jay Musson learned by chance, all because of a call out of the blue two years ago, requesting his DNA to help identify Ralph Mussons remains.

An Army contract genealogist was looking for live DNA (from) relatives, Musson said in a recent interview.

The phone call set in motion a continuing search for his relatives story.

Along the way, Musson uncovered Ralph Mussons deep Akron ties in the years before his death in the Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp, where a young pilot with a love of music was tossed in a common grave with others who died in the camp.

Jay Mussons DNA sample and two others collected from Massachusettsrelatives of Ralph Musson led to what are believed to be the WWII soldiers remains being sent to Hawaii. There,the militarys top DNA detectives will work to positively identify the set.

As the 80th anniversary of his relatives death approaches, Musson hopes the relocation will lead to Ralph Mussons remains being verified, allowing him to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Its an absolutely heartbreaking story of what happened to him, Musson said.

Ralph Mussons father lived in Mogadore and attended the University of Akron before moving to Massachusetts for medical school. His aunt, however, remained in Akron.

In the summers, Ralph Musson and his sister would stay with their aunt in Akron, taking trips with her and occasionally appearing on the society pages of local newspapers. One year, Musson said, she took her nephew to Europe.

Ralph was raised in a musical family, Musson said.

He went on to study music at Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College, but world events were out of tune with his college goals and he was drawn into the conflict that became World War II.

As tensions between Japan and the U.S. intensified, Ralph Musson put aside his musical ambitions. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entered World War II, he was stationed in the Philippines, less than 2,000 miles from the the land of the Rising Sun.

Military records show that 2nd Lt. Ralph Musson entered the military on Dec. 30, 1940.

He went into the (military)to fly planes, Musson said. He went to train as a dive-bomber pilot.

The young pilot was sent to the Philippines and stationed on Luzon, the nation's largest and most populous island,as part of a buildup of forces as war tensions grew. When war came after the Dec. 7 attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese turned their attention to Luzon.

But the U.S. and Filipino forces were unprepared. Planes hadnt been delivered to airmen on the island, and when a ground assault began on Dec. 22, the pilots became infantry.

They knew the Philippines was going to fall, so they diverted (the) planes to Australia, Musson said. He was screwed.

Ralph Musson and the 12,000 U.S and 63,000 Filipino soldiers were ordered by Gen. Douglas MacArthur to retreat to the Bataan Peninsula, and a long battle raged from Jan. 7 to April 9. The surrender of the U.S.-led force was the largest since the Civil War and the 60-mile Bataan Death March began, with hundreds of U.S. troops and thousands of Filipino POWs dying along the way.

They got up against the sea and they all surrendered, Musson said. The Japanese felt that these Americans and Filipinos were all cowards who deserved to die. Thats why they didnt have any food, they didnt have any water.

Ralph Musson survived the infamous march, but at Camp Cabanatuan, he contracted malaria. The enemy was not concerned with American burial practices or traditions.

Theyd (bury) 30 guys in a hole, Musson said.

Efforts to identify Ralph Mussons remains are similar those made to successfully confirm the remains of a Barberton sailor, Buford Dyer.

Dyer was on board the USS Oklahoma when it was attacked in Pearl Harbor, and it wasnt until last year that his remains were identified using DNA technology. Previous attempts ended with Dyers remains being classified as unrecoverable.

For Ralph Musson, the process has been similar, with initial efforts to identify his remains ending more than 70 years ago.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, however, has been using DNA to successfully identify hundreds of individuals killed in action and is conducting an ongoing project to evaluate evidence related to Cabanatuan POW cases.

When Musson sent his DNA swab to investigators, it helped satisfy requirements for a disinterment of remains. The process was approved Sept. 15, and the remains were sent to Hawaii.

Musson expects another wait before he and Ralph Mussons other relatives learn if military experts can identify the young pilots remains. The answer will be one more piece of the 80-year-old mystery and help preserve Ralph Mussons legacy. His relatives in Massachusetts, like Musson,knew little about him before the process began.

They said they saw his pictures at Ralphs mothers house, he said. There was a picture of him on the wall, and thats about all they knew.

Musson said he feels a deep connection to the relative he never met.

The Akron resident was drafted in 1966, went on active duty in February 1967, and was sent to Vietnam on April 1, 1968.

He saw heavy fighting in the Mekong Valley, the location of some of most brutal fighting in the war. Jay Musson was injured in the knee and was awarded a Purple Heart. He said he suffered more long-term damage from post-traumatic stress disorder than his injury.

His license plate, a half-century later, reads SHOT4U.

With the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, Musson began delving into his family history and uncovering at least 20 family members who served in the U.S. military. The roots run back to the French and Indian War, before there was a United States, and the Revolutionary War.

But Ralph Mussons case has consumed him the most, Musson said.

What I always worried about happening to me happened to him, Musson said.

Leave a message for Alan Ashworth at 330-996-3859 or email him at aashworth@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @newsalanbeaconj.

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