eSnips: A Story of Hearthache (For Its Founders, Investors & Employees) (TechCrunch)

Three years ago when Web 2.0 began proliferating, Israeli startups used eSnips as the poster child for their case that a successful social network could be founded in Israel. Based on the criteria in those days, eSnips was in fact delivering: It was able to convince top tier VCs to buy into an advertising-based business model, it leveraged user-generated content (the main activity is sharing ...

Local detectives play waiting game to break cold cases (The Times of Northwest Indiana)

In a fairer, safer world, there is a bus full of nuns. The nuns ride around witnessing every homicide everywhere. These nuns are invaluable to the detectives who use them for comprehensive, trustworthy accounts of the knifings, shootings, stranglings, smotherings and bludgeonings used in the unlawful arbitration of personal disputes. No victim dies without vindication, and the police chief, the ...

Lee Professor And Students Research Genetic Patterns Of Raccoons (The Chattanoogan)

When interviewing for his position as instructor of biology, John Hisey promised to get students involved with research. "Students in the natural sciences, if they are going to graduate school, need to do research" he said. Involving Lee students in research is just what he has done.

They made the news in 2008: David Davis (Guardian Unlimited)

One minute he was shadow home secretary, the next he was Captain Liberty, the Sword of Justice. At the beginning of summer David Davis did something so audacious that had he not been an MP we would have regarded it as heroic and carried him aloft through the streets. As it was, his act seemed merely professional suicide, or perhaps some treacherous scam that would reveal itself to make fools ...

Killer of America's Most Wanted presenter's son died in jail, police say (Guardian Unlimited)

Police convinced that killer who died in 1996 while serving five life sentences was responsible for decapitating six-year-old Adam Walsh

Course for female cadets on DNA forensic methods (Gulf Times)

A FOUR-DAY forensic course for female cadets from Arab countries on ‘Methods of separation and extracting DNA from biological samples’ was inaugurated by the Ministry of Interior’s Forensic Lab Department director Brigadier Hassan Ahmed al-Obaidly.

Strong cheese? It's a 'cultured' experience (PhysOrg)

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team led by Newcastle University has identified a new line of bacteria they believe add flavour to some of the world`s most exclusive cheeses. It`s an age-old tradition that dates back at least 8,000 years but it seems we still have much to learn about the bacteria responsible for turning milk into cheese.

Genetic fingerprinting to be introduced in region (Zawya)

23 December 2008 DOHA: The Forensic Laboratory here has trained 20 women from Arab countries as part of a plan to introduce genetic fingerprinting in the region.

Genetic fingerprinting to be introduced in region (The Peninsula)

DOHA: The Forensic Laboratory here has trained 20 women from Arab countries as part of a plan to introduce genetic fingerprinting in the region.

Fingerprinting to keep Lee kids safe (ABC 7 Gulfshore News)

DNA collection and fingerprinting kits are being done this morning in Lee County.