DNASwab by DNAExam Combines Convenience with Confidentiality at Home

The DNA Identity Testing Center is pleased to launch the DNASwab™ DNA Testing Collection Kit, a line of DNA test products that representatives hope will add a new level of confidentiality to its private DNA testing process. "Our DNA kit provides convenience and ease of use in the privacy of the client's own home," says company President Miguel Castro. "We also provide an 800 number so that our ...

Senate holds hearing into DNA backlog at crime labs

Major Texas city crime labs, such as those in Houston and Dallas, have significant backlogs of untested DNA material from sexual assaults, witnesses told the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice during a Tuesday hearing. Harris County, which contains part of Houston, has no backlog of forensic materials and could take up the slack for the state’s biggest cities, but that would require $20 ...

Beckman Coulter's Garrett Steps Down

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Beckman Coulter announced today that Chairman, President, and CEO Scott Garrett resigned from the firm, effective yesterday.

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No refusal weekend for those suspected of DWI has critics, supporters

THIBODAUX — State Police’s “No Refusal” campaign for Labor Day weekend is being billed as a way for law-enforcement to get more drunken drivers off the road and reduce alcohol-related traffic fatalities. But in the eyes of one of the state’s leading civil-liberties advocates, it is an unnecessary measure that violates drivers’ constitutional rights to privacy and against unreasonable search and ...