DNA

Coming in January, a Prohibition-inspired dinner at Theatre Project

2012-12-17 08:30:00

Check it out. Baltimore's DNA Theatre (Daydreams + Nightmares Aerial Theatre) is presenting 1920s Vintage Cabaret, a weekend-long fundraiser at the Theatre Project featuring live music, artisan cocktails and food. The cabaret benefits DNA Theatre's 2013...

Judge S. Ann Brobst, longtime Baltimore County prosecutor

2012-12-18 15:41:00

Judge S. Ann Brobst, who during her three-decade career as an assistant state's attorney earned a reputation for being a tough but fair prosecutor that led to her to appointment in 2009 to the Baltimore County Circuit Court, died Monday evening of...

DNA evidence on Cowboys hat enough to indict man in Columbia armed robbery

2012-11-27 03:15:00

A Laurel teenager was indicted on armed robbery and assault charges after police matched his DNA to DNA found on a Dallas Cowboys hat left at the scene of a December 2011 armed robbery of a Columbia woman inside her home. Haanief Singley, 19, of the...

'Jurassic Park Builder' is dino-mite

2012-07-31 06:55:00

“Jurassic Park Builder” Ludia Available on iOS devices Score: 4 out of 4 “Jurassic Park,” a film now 20 years gone by, is well-trodden territory for video game adaptations. The original concept, brilliantly adapted from Michael...

Baltimore man charged in 1997 Woodlawn rape

2012-11-19 12:32:00

A Baltimore man has been charged in a Woodlawn rape that occurred 15 years earlier, after county investigators matched DNA evidence to an earlier case. The evidence collected in the 1997 Woodlawn case matched evidence from a 1993 city case, where...

Supreme Court will review Md. DNA law

2012-11-09 18:25:00

Maryland's DNA law, which allows police to take samples of suspects' genetic material for possible matches to other crimes, will be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court next year, the justices announced Friday. The law, a signature crime-fighting...

Monae Turnage death leads to charges against boy's mother

2012-10-26 16:14:48

The mother of one of the boys who accidentally shot 13-year-old Monae Turnage helped drag the girl's body into an alley behind the home and then hid the gun in a police officer's car, authorities alleged in court papers filed Friday. The new...

Study: Moms who carry boys show male DNA in their brains decades later

2012-10-03 04:00:00

From guest blogger Liz Atwood: Now I know why I've lost interest in shopping, wearing jewelry and painting my nails.� I thought I was just busy, but a new study says my boys may have changed my brain. The report published last week finds that women who...

Gene patent case could impact patients, research

2012-09-22 11:52:00

Every time a woman is tested for gene mutations linked to significantly higher rates of breast and ovarian cancer, her blood is sent to a lab in Utah. That's because Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics Inc. owns the patents to the BRCA 1 and BRCA 2...

Woman shares personal story of rape amid DNA collection debate in Maryland

2012-06-11 04:00:00

When Maryland’s highest court ruled in late April that taking DNA samples before a suspect is convicted was unconstitutional, it was clear a lot more was at stake than the important legal argument. Every one of the 13 rapes solved after the General...

Maryland lawmakers want DNA collection to resume

2012-09-17 15:31:00

A bipartisan group of Maryland lawmakers today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a state law that allows police to collect DNA samples from those arrested for violent crimes and some burglaries.� The lawmakers, led by Montgomery County Del. Sam...

DNA study deserved better coverage

2012-09-10 09:00:00

Could not a little bit of room have been made on the front page of The Sun for what is considered a major medical and scientific breakthrough of enormous implications, the study that discovered the road map of the DNA? The article ("Massive analysis...

Miguel Familia, a dual citizen of the United States and the Dominican Republic, stands chained to the fence of the U.S. consulate with his daughters Ashley (center) and Salome (right), during a demonstration by him to make public his lawsuit against the U.S.

2012-12-04 00:00:00

Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering assembled nanoscale, three-dimensional structures out of DNA. Their technique could be used someday to build tiny medical devices, among other things.

2012-11-30 11:31:29

Science educator Ellen Luybli, of Hellertown (right) shows how to extract the DNA of peas at the The Da Vinci Science Center's Thanksgiving 2012: Play With Your Food Returns, it features science activities that start with food including extracting the DNA of peas, a tablecloth yank challenge, and a

2012-11-24 00:00:00