Spontaneous mutation produces new MAO A/B knockout mouse
... MAO A and MAO B, that have been linked to violent criminal behavior and Parkinson's disease. The MAO A/B knockout mouse should provide an excellent model in which to address the specific roles of these neurotransmitters and their receptors in anxiety and stress-related disorders. The research appears as the ...Plumbing trees' plumbing reveals their engineering skill
.... The fingerprinting is the same technique used in criminal forensics. They then measured the diameters and wall thicknesses of the water-conducting root xylems. And in laboratory experiments, they determined how vulnerable specific sections of root were to "cavitation," in which mechanical stress or drought ...Carnegie Mellon scientist says new technologies boost bio-terrorism surveillance
...ily Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and criminal history records laws," says W. Michael Tupman, deputy attorney general of the Delaware Department of Justice. "Rest assured that your data-sharing practices are consistent with federal and state law, protect individual privacy rights and reduce your ...Online calculator improves analysis of chemical data
...also may make some chemical evidence introduced in criminal cases more trustworthy. The NIST tool, called Mass...e confidence in chemical analyses conducted during criminal investigations....Rodents bred for alcohol preference live longer than rats bred for alcohol avoidance
...e's health by increasing the chances of accidents, criminal activities, and health problems. However, little research has addressed the effects of long-term, chronic alcohol consumption on survival itself. A study in the January issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research uses rodents to do just...New technology will speed genome sequencing
...ead to faster forensic analysis of DNA gathered in criminal cases. The heart of the new BioMEMs machine is a large glass chip etched with tiny microchannels called "lanes." It tests 384 lanes of DNA at a time, four times more than existing capillary sequencers. Each lane can accommodate longer strands of DNA:...New program interrogates gene pathways
...dical Research promises to do for biology what any criminal investigator would do at a crime scene: cross-examine witnesses until a single, coherent account of the event emerges. The new publicly available program, called GRAM (Genetic Regulatory Modules), incorporates two different data sets, each of which ...US crackdown on bioterror backfiring
...ial burden, potential partners do not want to risk criminal liability if they accidentally break any rules. Meanwhile, researchers who have not been able to meet deadlines for registering every single sample of select agents they hold are having to destroy them. Many labs have thousands of samples, and such ...SPR Annual Meeting features newsworthy discoveries
...nd assessing memory--in essence trying to read the criminal mind.. Investigators have used similar, albeit simpler, techniques for decades. Standard lie-detectors record the heart rate and electrical activity of the skin which fluctuates under stress. Interpreting the complex tangle of electrical brain pat...DNA profiling is subject of two-day expert forum at Wright State
...tified as an expert on DNA typing in more than 200 criminal trials including the Unabomber and the ongoing Gre...of California, Irvine, has testified in nearly 500 criminal cases, usually on issues pertaining to chances of coincidental matches. David Lynch, J.D., assista...The roots of human behavior? AAAS and The Hastings Center host a public meeting
...hat the concepts of behavioral genetics may affect criminal litigation through the decisions of those who administer the law. In these settings, judges, prosecutors, and defense counsel exercise make decisions such as whether to charge criminally, what to charge criminally, and how to sentence. "Precisely bec...Symposium explores microbial forensics and the investigation of biocrimes
...d presentation of evidence in the courts, biocrime criminal investigations require careful controls and standards for validation and evaluation of technologies and the data they produce. Speakers at the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) sponsored session include organizer Abigail Salyers, Ph.D. ,Universi...Microbial forensics: An overview (news briefing and symposium)
...about anything have been found and used to reel in criminal confessions. Note, however, viewers don't see the... Science. The gathering of microbial evidence from criminal or civil cases involving such things as anthrax, HIV-AIDS and Staphylococcus epidermidis already is ...Forensics bringing bacteria into the courtroom
... track down the source of a pathogen, whether in a criminal investigation of bioterrorism attacks or a study of naturally occurring disease outbreak, looking for molecular microbial signatures. These signatures are detected by measuring the polymorphisms, or variations, between microbial strains and are used ...Genetics may help solve mysteries of human evolution
...happened 50,000 years ago. ''It's kind of like the criminal justice system,'' he says. ''It's never 100 percent. ... There are always some ambiguities, some contradiction in the evidence, even when eyewitness accounts are available. And the fact is, of course, that the jury themselves cannot be eyewitnesses,'...'Scientific balancing act' dominates AAAS top ten list of science policy stories for 2002
...ls that could be used to make weapons) and imposes criminal penalties for violations. Finally, scientists, editors, and policymakers contemplated whether the government should screen certain potentially sensitive research articles prior to publication. "Clearly, public safety must take precedence over all el...High risk of mental health problems in adoptees from other countries
...lation in terms of mental health and delinquent or criminal behaviours. The Hjern study does not indicate maladjustment in the 84% of the male and the 92% of the female intercountry adoptees in Sweden. It is possible that over 80% of intercountry adoptees in Sweden fared well, which is similar to other studie...Gene may protect abused kids against behavior problems
...ically assessed the subjects' history of abuse and criminal convictions, their penchant for violence and any s...ity developed antisocial outcomes, such as violent criminal behavior," says Moffitt. "The combination of maltreatment and the genetic variation magnified the od...Genes, maltreatment, and the cycle of violence
...social personality disorder, violence, and related criminal conduct are huge problems in American society and ...llions of dollars every year in the context of the criminal justice system, prisons, rehab programs, treatment, and the like. Many of us are terrorized by the ...Vessel reporting a weak link in national strategy to stem the flow of alien organisms to the U.S.
...alifornia, where state law authorizes monetary and criminal penalties for non-compliance with federal ballast water reporting requirements, rates of reporting were much higher," said estuarine ecologist Gregory M. Ruiz, who directs the clearinghouse and leads the marine invasions research program at SERC. "I...