Sentences with phrase «oldest state dna»

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In this case, the investigators fished the database with a DNA sequence obtained from a frozen, 37 - year - old rape kit used in a murder case attributed to the Golden State Killer.

DNA was credited for cracking the decades old cold case of the «Golden State Killer,» a California serial murderer and rapist.

The 48 - year - old Gestring, a former New York Police Department forensic scientist, joined DCJS in July 2012 to run the agency's office that oversees the state's DNA database and public forensic laboratories.

This is particularly exciting to those of us who work in tropical or extremely old contexts, where traditional sources of DNA may be poorly preserved or even non-existent,» according to Maria Nieves Colón, Ph.D. candidate, Arizona State University.

Christina Warinner and Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., professors in the Department of Anthropology, OU College of Arts and Sciences, collaborated with researchers from Arizona State University and Pennsylvania State University on the capture, enrichment and high - throughput sequencing of DNA extracted from six individuals at the 700 - year - old Oneota cemetery, Norris Farms # 36.

That casts serious doubts on the original reports, as well as a 1993 claim by scientists at California State Polytechnic University who said they had extracted DNA from a 125 million year old Jurassic Park - age weevil.

DNA extracted from a man's 8,500 - year - old skeleton, which was found in Washington State in 1996, is more closely related to that of modern Native Americans than of populations elsewhere in the world.

«Taking into account the actual characteristics of the DNA in old remains, an initial real time quantitative analysis of the mitochondrial DNA was taken to verify the state of preservation of the samples,» she explained.

We are grateful for the support given to our research by breeders and owners of Old English Sheepdogs who donated DNA from their dogs, and by our collaborators, Drs. Dahlia Nielsen and Alison Mottsinger Reif of the Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Dr. Jerold Bell of the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Andrew Singleton of the Neurogenetics Laboratory at NIH, Drs. Kerstin Lindblad - Toh and Noriko Tonomura of the Broad Institute and Drs Dennis O'Brien and Gary Johnson of the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine.

In 2009, the Department of Forensic Science, the Forensic Science Board, and the Virginia State Crime Commission asked MAIP to serve as a contact point for more than 800 individuals whose DNA was being tested as part of the Old Case Testing Project in Virginia.