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The Davie Police Department said it has charged Donald Lawless, who is now dead, in the case of the 1987 murder of Marilyn Decker.
Investigators have identified Emory Earl McVay as the suspect in several Bastrop County rape cases between 1997 and 2005.
A major development in the Louvre heist investigation has been shared, as two former delivery drivers suspected of committing the robbery "partially confessed" to the crime. However, the valuable jewels that were stolen have not yet been handed over to the police,
Morrissey is the Chief of Operations for United Data Connect, a company that helps use DNA to solve cases. Morrissey is hopeful that advanced genealogy testing can be a tool in the next year or two, in this case, but says the tech might not be there yet with an even split DNA mixture.
Texas DPS says DNA and genealogy testing identified Emory Earl McVay as the suspect in three Bastrop County sexual assaults from 1997 to 2005. McVay died in 2010 at age 48.
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A team of Chinese scientists has uncovered a hidden 3D structure in rice DNA that allows the crop to grow more grain while using less nitrogen fertilizer. The finding, published in Nature Genetics by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),
In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a couple of unexpected pathogens may have helped hasten the soldiers' demise.
New research suggests that two surprise pathogens were among the diseases that laid waste to the emperor’s vaunted Grande Armée.
The retreat from Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Grande Armée in 1812 was a cataclysmic event that marked the beginning of the end for his empire and personal dominance in Europe, with about 300,
DNA, often called the blueprint of life, is built from four chemical building blocks known as deoxy-nucleoside triphosphates (dNTPs)—dATP, dTTP, dGTP, and dCTP. Cells constantly need these molecules to duplicate their DNA during active proliferation.