FBI attaches strings to its DNA database

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The FBI is refusing to allow genetics researcher Seymour Geisser access to its database of human DNA samples unless he allows an FBI scientist to examine his work and be listed as a co-author. Genetics researchers are denouncing the policy as censorship and are demanding that the FBI grant free access to the database as urged by a National Academy of Science report. However, the FBI declared that it is still developing its policy on the database but that it is reluctant to allow free access lest the data be misinterpreted to denigrate the behavior of some population subgroups.

Laws, regulations and rules, Information services, Human genetics, Databases, United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Genetic research

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Panel calls for technology company

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The National Academy of Sciences issued a report advocating that the US government set up an independent technology corporation to assist high-technology industry in keeping up with foreign competition. The proposed corporation, fashioned after the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, is meant to reverse the drop in research and development spending and technology transfer that threaten US high-technology's future. However, the report lacked detail on exactly how the corporation would function.

Planning, High technology industry, Industrial research, Research and development contracts, Government, Government research and development contracts

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Courts reject DNA fingerprinting, citing controversy after NAS report

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Courts in California, Massachusetts and Guam have decided that DNA fingerprinting is not admissible as evidence despite an Apr 1992 National Academy of Sciences report that recommended the admission of such evidence. The California Court of Appeals, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the US District Court of Guam found that the persistent scientific doubts about the reliability of DNA fingerprinting mean that this technique fails the Frye test for legal admissibility.

Cases, DNA testing, DNA identification

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