Tag: #DNA
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Court allows to conduct DNA tests of Zahir Jaffer’s two employees
ISLAMABAD: Significant progress has been made in the Noor Muqaddam murder case. According to details, the Noor Muqadam murder case was heard in the District Sessions Court, in which the DNA application of two accused in the murder case, Iftikhar and Jamil, was submitted to the duty judge. Both the accused were summoned from Adiala…
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DNA leads Canadian police to suspect in girl’s 1984 murder
Montreal, Oct 16 (AFP/APP):Canadian police announced Thursday that DNA evidence had led them to a now-deceased suspect in the 1984 murder of a nine-year-old girl, whose killing shocked the country and led to an innocent man’s conviction. Through the revolutionary technique of “genetic genealogy”, which relies on DNA samples of sometimes distant relatives, investigators in…
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Two Women Win Nobel Chemistry Prize
Two women have won the Nobel Chemistry prize.
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Marwah Rape Case: DNA of the rapists matched
Karachi, 20th September: In the rape case of a 5-year-old girl Marwah, an accused Faiz and Abdullah’s DNA has matched. According to details, the DNA of two accused Faiz and Abdullah involved in Marwah murder case has been matched. While accused Nawaz has been proved innocent in the investigation. DNA samples of 34 persons were…
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DNA ‘remembers’ poor blood glucose control in diabetes
ISLAMABAD, July 26 (online): A study has revealed how poor management of blood glucose levels in people with type 1 diabetes can increase their risk of complications decades later. In 2016, around 1.3 million adults in the United States, about 0.55% of the adult population, had type 1 diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease…
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Identifying migrants who died at sea meticulous work for Tunisia
Tunisia, July 5 (AFP/APP): The identity of dozens of migrants who drowned off Tunisia last month might have been lost without a trace, like thousands of others who have disappeared on the treacherous sea route to Europe. But when authorities recovered 61 bodies near the eastern port city of Sfax, they carefully took note of…
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PIA Crash: Tombstones of family read heart wrenching message
The viral image has become the talk of the town ever since it went on re-run during the on-going lockdown period. Pakistani cyberspace could not hold back as the pictures of tombstones of the deceased ones surfaced the social media. For Arif Ali Faruqui, his entire world came crashing down just two days before Eid…
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A shocking find: new high-voltage electric eels revealed
Tokyo, Sept 10 (AFP/APP):Call it a shock discovery: DNA research has revealed two entirely new species of electric eel in the Amazon basin, including one capable of delivering a record-breaking jolt. The findings are evidence, researchers say, of the incredible diversity in the Amazon rainforest — much of it still unknown to science — and…