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An Australian cultured meat company used the DNA of the long-extinct woolly mammoth to create a giant meatball that was recently put on display at a museum in the Netherlands. According to CNN, scientists from Vow created the “mammoth meatball” by identifying the DNA sequence of a mammoth through a public genome database in order to replicate what […]
The latest chapter in Blueface and Chrisean Rock’s dysfunctional relationship unfolded on Friday, with the latter announcing that she’s pregnant. Rock took to social media to deliver the news, posting a picture of three positive pregnancy tests. “Guess how many heart beats?” she captioned the post. Hours later, Blueface responded to the announcement via Twitter, saying that “she’s […]
Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring has announced the outcome of an investigation into the Virginia Beach Police Department, which was previously made the subject of a probe that found the department had used forged DNA reports in interrogations. This practice was first revealed in 2021 when a prosecutor asked the regional Department of Forensic […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets Bow Wow’s paternity drama has seemingly come to an end. According to legal documents shared by The Neighborhood Talk, […]
A 19-year-old woman in Spain is taking legal action against local health authorities after learning she was swapped at birth with another baby. Reuters reports the unidentified woman was born in 2002 at the San Millan de Logrono hospital in La Rioja, hours after another baby girl. Both babies were placed in incubators before they were handed to […]
Florida man Jared Vaughn has been arrested and charged with sexual battery after he submitted his DNA to an ancestry site, helping police solve a 14-year-old cold case. The Washington Post reports that a University of Tampa student was allegedly raped by Vaughn, a stranger to the victim at the time, in her dorm room in 2007. “We […]
In a new study, researchers have suggested there’s substantial evidence to point towards a coronavirus epidemic that hit East Asia around 20,000 years ago. The research shows that the epidemic, which was present in the region for multiple years, left traces of itself in the genetic make-up of people from the region. “It should make us […]
Subway found itself in yet another whirlwind of bad press after the New York Times recently published a report centered around its tuna sandwich. The Times commissioned lab analysis after ordering “60 inches worth of Subway tuna sandwiches” from three separate locations in Los Angeles. The study determined that the submitted samples didn’t contain tuna DNA or a species that could be […]
Four years after the state of Arkansas executed Ledell Lee for the 1993 murder of Debra Reese, testing results were recently released showing that the DNA of an “unknown male” was found on the wooden club and bloody shirt found at the scene, KATV reports. The club was beleived to have been the murder weapon used to […]
On Tuesday morning two men were arrested in connection with the disappearance of Kristin Smart, a college freshman who was attending California Polytechnic State University when she disappeared on May 25, 1996. She was last seen near her dorm while walking home from a frat party. She never returned to her room, and nobody heard from […]
