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DNA tests on child beggars: Punjab’s new directive to verify biological relation, curb child exploitation
Punjab government has directed all deputy commissioners (DCs) to conduct DNA tests on children found begging with adults on the streets, officials said on Thursday.The directive is aimed at protecting ...
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Eight Healthy Children Born Using Three-Person IVF Technique
Long-awaited results of a three-person IVF technique suggest that mitochondrial donation can prevent babies from inheriting ...
The New York Sun6h
Breakthrough Three-Parent Procedure Produces Eight Healthy Babies, Doctors Report
The groundbreaking IVF procedure, pioneered in Britain, removes the risk of incurable genetic disorders caused by ...
Jurist19d
US Supreme Court allows Texas death row inmate to sue over state's DNA ...
Gutierrez filed a §1983 lawsuit in federal court against Luis Saenz, the district attorney who has custody of the untested evidence. Gutierrez argued that Texas’ state post-conviction DNA testing ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette20d
West Memphis Three hearing on new DNA testing moved to August
A hearing regarding new DNA testing of items from the West Memphis Three case has been moved to Aug. 1.
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SCOTUS Backs Texas Death Row Inmate's DNA Testing Challenge
The majority concluded that Texas's Chapter 64 procedures, as interpreted by the Texas courts, unconstitutionally impeded Gutierrez from obtaining DNA testing that could potentially substantiate ...