PRESS
Its like looking a zomby not of this realm!
Posted on 10/19/2005 8:42:55 PM PDT by Mo1
What do you mean?
Exciting race there.... pirates have their appeal. :)
220 line or 110?
Now now I do my geography!
I might not have been to Mexico but I know a lot about its ancient history!
I just saw Steve Martin's "Shopgirl" this afternoon. I really liked it a lot. Much, much better than the somewhat comparable "Lost in Translation" with Bill Murray from a couple of years ago. I just didn't "get" that one.
Yes, but you ask as if this was Europe........see?
No I am not familar with the type of electricity in Mexico...
There is different kinds-
AC DC 110/220 and of course how much amperage you have!
DNA Method Could Reveal Jack the Ripper
By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News
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Nov. 11, 2005— Some of the greatest murder mysteries of all time, including the identity of Jack the Ripper, could be solved soon thanks to a major breakthrough in DNA technology, Australian researchers say.
Developed by Ian Findlay at Queensland's Griffith University, the method is able to extract and compile a DNA fingerprint from as little as one human cell up to 160 years old.
The technology, called Cell Track-ID, consists of modifications to the traditional DNA extraction technique — known as short tandem repeats (STR) profiling — which works by amplifying the DNA billions of times to look for very specific markers.
But while the STR method needs samples of 200 or more cells, Cell Track-ID provides single-cell forensic DNA fingerprinting.
Cell Track is very similar to the STR profiling, but the technique has been refined to have a much better extraction protocol. This keeps the DNA intact, therefore providing much more information and making it possible to examine the smallest genetic material that is up to 160 years old, Findlay told Discovery News.
The method has been tested on strands of hair found in a 150-year-old brooch. Cell Track revealed the hair came from four different people — three females and a male.
According to Findlay, the technology will open tremendous possibilities in forensic science, allowing the re-opening of old, unsolved murder cases.
"Potentially, it could also solve the mystery over the identify of Jack the Ripper," Findlay said.
The elusive Ripper carried out horrific murders between August and November 1888. At least five prostitutes in the Whitechapel area in London were found horribly disfigured, often with organs missing.
The name Jack the Ripper was coined in taunting letters sent to the press and police, in which the writer claimed credit for the crimes.
Ripper's career ended as suddenly as it had begun with the murderer still at large, making his case one of the history's greatest murder mysteries.
Findlay will first test the new technology on a lock of hair believed to be from Catherine Eddowes, one of Jack the Ripper's victims. Comparison with her descendants will tell if the hair is genuine.
The researcher will then use Cell Track to check saliva that could have been left behind by the notorious serial killer, if he licked the stamps on envelopes he sent to the London police.
"If we found DNA on the stamps we could compare that with DNA from the descendants of the suspects," Findlay said.
Success Could be Slim
However, chances of success are slim, according to Ripper expert Stephen Ryder, editor of the "Casebook: Jack the Ripper" Web site, the world's largest public repository of Ripper-related information.
"It would be difficult to see how DNA testing of any type could ever uncover the identity of a man who left no trace of himself to history," Ryder told Discovery News.
Although many hundreds of so-called Ripper letters survive, the general consensus is that they are all hoaxes.
"While there is a chance that DNA testing might help identify one or more letter writers, that's about as far as you can take it," Ryder said.
Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell has already attempted to find a genetic match between a suspect and stamps from the so-called Rippper letters. In her 2002 book, "Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper — Case Closed," Cornwell identified Jack the Ripper in the impressionist painter Walter Sickert.
Cornwell's forensic scientists found a sequence of mitochondrial DNA — DNA passed down on the mother's side — on a "Ripper letter" which matched sequences found on Sickert's personal correspondence.
But mitochondrial DNA is not as unique as nuclear DNA, a mixture of DNA from both parents. Finding a match between two MtDNA samples does not mean that a person left both, but that only that a certain percentage of the population could have left both.
As Cornwell herself admitted, the evidence served as a "cautious indicator that the Sickert and Ripper mitochondrial DNA ... may have come from the same person."
"In a case like this where practically no evidence survives, I don't see DNA being particularly useful. But I do think there is value in DNA testing to solve some of the smaller mysteries surrounding the Ripper case, such as the lock of hair of one of the victims," Ryder said.
"The new method could tell us whether or not this is actually the real thing, or yet another hoax," he said.
There is hope I might be able to trace back who my bio paternal parents are!
Habla Espanol?
Claro que lo hablo.
Mi amigas habla buena.
Freepmail coming.
PRESS
Its like looking a zomby not of this realm!
I wonder if these people are retraded that these jihad thugs are using for this dastardly deed?
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