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the state quietly gave hundreds of newborn blood samples to a U.S. Armed Forces laboratory for use in a forensics database. | |
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Offer Upgrade User ID: 866176 Canada 02/24/2010 09:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | the state quietly gave hundreds of newborn blood samples to a U.S. Armed Forces laboratory for use in a forensics database. This stuff probably happens all the time I bet bastards! [link to news.sciencemag.org] Texas Supplied Newborn Blood Samples to U.S. Armed Forces laboratory Published on 02-23-2010 Source: Science Mag - Jennifer Couzin-Frankel Dogged investigation by a non-profit online media organization in Texas has revealed that between 2003 and 2007, the state quietly gave hundreds of newborn blood samples to a U.S. Armed Forces laboratory for use in a forensics database. The revelation will likely raise questions about how newborn screening programs are run and how the samples are disseminated, almost always without families knowing where they go. In this case, 800 blood samples were to be part of a new, national mitochondrial DNA database intended as a reference databank for the forensic community and for research into mitochondrial DNA variation—DNA we inherit from our mother. California, Minnesota, and Florida have also reportedly supplied infant blood samples to the effort, according to The Texas Tribune investigation. Like virtually every state, Texas routinely screens almost all newborns for rare diseases, collecting a few drops of blood at birth. In recent years many states, Texas included, have stored the samples and offered them up for research, mainly in pediatrics. more at above link Last Edited by SPUD on 12/17/2011 12:51 AM [email protected] By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. Hebrews: 11 |
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