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impact on DNA
This excerpt from Lesson 9 talks about applying the Flying Rainbow Lasagne shape to one #39;s toroidal energy field, morphing one #39;s DNA into new possible combina...

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Extent of the Jam w/ Revolt at DNA Lounge for 8bitSF (April 11, 2013)
Extent of the Jam (Louis Gorenfeld) lays down the sick solos. Then Revolt joins him for the Sonic the Hedgehog Rap. Visuals by Matthew Joseph Payne. http://w...

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DNA Letter Sells for $6 Million
A DNA letter sells for $6 million. A letter from Francis Crick to his son that describes the discovery of DNA #39;s double helix (1,1,1) design has been sold at ...

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TENNIS BAFRA - DNA
TENNIS BAFRA - DNA Video By: Nanna Dalunde With: Jessica Diviani Thank you: Manasi Makeup Mns Nyman Jean-Louis Huhta NoMethod Records.

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Local organisers of DNA Gay Ski Week Queenstown are delighted with the news that same sex marriage in New Zealand is now legal.

Queenstown wife and wife team Sally and Mandy Whitewoods said they were over the moon the law was passed in Government last night and are looking forward to celebrating with friends and visitors at this years event from August 31 and September 7.

"This is such an amazing achievement for same sex couples in New Zealand and across the globe," said Sally Whitewoods.

"Were already fielding Facebook posts, emails and calls from friends whore thinking about heading over to New Zealand to get married."

"Queenstowns just the perfect wedding destination, so were fully anticipating there will be a number of same sex couples choosing to get married here during Gay Ski Week."

"Wed love to hear from them so we can help out with their plans and make sure their celebrations tie in perfectly with the range of activities and fun times weve already got on offer. It could be a blast!"

Known as the Southern Hemispheres largest Winter Pride event, hundreds of gay men and women converge on Queenstown for a week-long celebration of skiing, socialising and evenings full of fun.

Firmly established as a must do on the national and international Gay and Lesbian calendar this years event is billed as being bigger and better than ever.

Sally Whitewoods said tickets were already going well for this years events, but urged potential attendees to book well in advance so they didnt miss out.

"Some events always sell out, but if we do have any tickets left on the night for door sales, people will end up paying more."

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MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Forensic professionals interested in learning about developing forensic DNA technologies and exploring the potential impact are invited to join scientists, law enforcement professionals and forensic experts at the 24th International Symposium on Human Identification (ISHI), October 7-10 in Atlanta, Georgia.

24th International Symposium on Human Identification (ISHI). The symposium will explore current issues in forensic DNA analysis, including advances in DNA sequencing, cell typing, mixture interpretation, expert witness testimony and more.

-- Kevin Davies, Ph.D.: Author of Cracking the Genome and The $1000 Genome, Davies is currently the editor-in-chief of Bio-IT World, a monthly magazine covering technology in the life sciences. He is the founding editor of Nature Genetics and has also worked at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Cell Press. Davies is this years keynote speaker.

-- John Butler, Ph.D.: NIST fellow and group leader, Butler has worked with the FBIs Scientific Working Group on DNA Analysis Methods (SWGDAM) since 2000. Butler will chair a workshop on understanding and incorporating newly available autosomal and Y STR markers.

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Visit http://www.ishinews.com for a conference agenda and presenter updates.

This symposium for forensic experts and suppliers is offered through Promega Corporation, a leader in providing innovative solutions and technical support to the life sciences industry. The companys 2,000 products enable scientists worldwide to advance their knowledge in genomics, proteomics, cellular analysis, molecular diagnostics and human identification. Founded in 1978, the company is headquartered in Madison, WI, USA with branches in 15 countries and over 50 global distributors. For more information about Promega, visit http://www.promega.com.

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The genome of a primitive fish that was once thought to have died when the dinosaurs did has now been sequenced by scientists and when put into mice, some of the fish DNA caused mice to sprout limbs.

The new analysis, described today (April 17) in the journal Nature, could help to reveal how primitive fish swapped their fins for limbs when they moved from land to sea.

The fish, called a coelacanth, seems to carry snippets of DNA that can turn on genes that code for forelimbs and hind limbs in mice. The new discovery could shed light on how four-legged creatures, called tetrapods, evolved. [Image Gallery: The Freakiest Fish]

"It really is a cornerstone from which we can view tetrapod evolution," said study co-author Chris Amemiya, a geneticist at the Benaroya Research Institute in Seattle, Wash.

Living fossil

The coelacanth was once thought to have gone extinct about 70 million years ago, roughly around the time dinosaurs vanished. But in 1938, a fish trawler brought a bluish-purple, 3.3-foot-long (1 meter) fish with fleshy fins to the South African naturalist Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer. It turned out to be an African coelacanth.

Over the next several decades, scientists unearthed a few hundred of the elusive creatures living around the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean, as well as off parts of Indonesia.

The coelacanth intrigued scientists because it was a kind of "living fossil": It had changed so little over the last 400 million years that it might reveal how fish first grew limbs and walked on land.

Deepening the mystery, other research showed that fish, mice and other animals carry many of the same genes. But in fish, those genes code for fins, whereas in land-based animals, they create limbs.

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) A judge on Tuesday granted Wyoming's first retrial based on DNA evidence, offering a new opportunity for freedom for a man who has served more than 23 years of a life sentence since being convicted of breaking into a Cheyenne woman's apartment and raping her.

Recent testing showed Andrew J. Johnson, 63, was not the source of male DNA taken from the victim after the 1989 attack. The DNA instead matched the victim's fiance at the time.

However, prosecutors say they still have other strong evidence against Johnson including testimony from the victim. Johnson has remained jailed, but Laramie County District Judge Thomas Campbell on Tuesday set bond at $10,000 and said terms of Johnson's potential release would need to be worked out.

Johnson didn't visibly react to the ruling, and neither did a small group of relatives and other supporters in the courtroom. Afterward, relatives expressed mixed emotions happiness about a new trial but disappointment the judge didn't dismiss the case and release Johnson right away.

"He's lost 24 years of his life," said a cousin, Barbara Johnson of Cheyenne. "Just let it go. It's been too long."

Johnson's exoneration despite his attorneys' insistence that the DNA evidence is a fatal blow to the case against him is not a foregone conclusion. District Attorney Scott Homar outlined for Campbell additional evidence besides the DNA that led to the jury verdict against Johnson.

Among that evidence: The victim identified Johnson as the rapist. Homar said after the hearing that he'd been in contact with the victim and could have her testify again.

"Certainly she is not thrilled about it," he said. "She was traumatized once."

The rape happened after Johnson and the victim spent an evening together visiting bars in Cheyenne, authorities said. Johnson told police he walked to his home after the victim drove to her home without him. The victim told police Johnson later broke in to her apartment and raped her in the dark, according to court documents.

In addition to collecting the DNA evidence from a rape kit, authorities found Johnson's personal identification in the victim's apartment and the victim found his glasses in her apartment a couple days after the attack. Johnson says he left the items at the apartment when he spent time there earlier on the evening of the attack.

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Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated "living fossil" fish, gaining new insights into how today's mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor.

The African coelacanth (SEE-lah-kanth) is closely related to the fish lineage that started to move toward a major evolutionary transformation, living on land And it hasn't changed much from its ancestors of even 300 million years ago, researchers said.

At one time, scientists thought coelacanths died out some 70 million years ago. But in a startling discovery in 1938, a South African fish trawler caught a living specimen. Its close resemblance to its ancient ancestors earned it the "living fossil" nickname.

And in line with that, analysis shows its genes have been remarkably slow to change, an international team of researchers reported Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Maybe that's because the sea caves where the coelacanth lives provide such a stable environment, said Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, senior author of the paper and a gene expert at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass.

Modern coelacanths make up two endangered species that live off the east coast of Africa and off Indonesia. They grow to more than 5 feet long and have fleshy fins.

The coelacanth's DNA code, called its genome, is slightly smaller than a human's. Using it as a starting point, the researchers found evidence of changes in genes and in gene-controlling "switches" that evidently aided the move onto land. They involve such things as sense of smell, the immune system and limb development.

Further study of the genome may give more insights into the transition to living on land, they said. Their analysis concluded that a different creature, the lungfish, is the closest living fish relative of animals with limbs, like mammals, but they said the lungfish genome is too big to decode.

The water-to-land transition took tens of millions of years, with limbs developing in primarily aquatic animals as long as nearly 400 million years ago, by some accounts, and a true switchover to life on land by maybe 340 million years ago, said researcher Ted Daeschler.

Daeschler, curator of vertebrate zoology at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia, who didn't participate in the new work, said genome research provides a way to tackle some previously unanswerable questions in evolution.

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