Advances in DNA – a Detective’s Best Friend

Advances in DNA – a Detective’s Best Friend

BY DIANE DIMOND Raymond “DJ Freez” Rowe got away with murder for more than two decades. As a popular fixture on the party scene in and around Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, he was “the” man to call for music at high school dances, restaurants, clubs and weddings. He was the last person his fans would have […]

OMBUDSMAN ALERT: WILL YOU BE AMONG THE FIRST TO PICK YOUR KIDS’ GENES?

OMBUDSMAN ALERT: WILL YOU BE AMONG THE FIRST TO PICK YOUR KIDS’ GENES?

As Machine Learning Unlocks Predictions From DNA Databases, Scientists Say Parents Could Have Choices Never Before Possible BY DR. LOUIS ALPERT Ombudsman As in several previous articles in this column inspired by MIT publications, this author, an MIT alumnus and former mathematics instructor at the Institute, was granted permission to quote the January, 2018 edition […]

Open up DNA Databases to All

BY DIANE DIMOND The scene: A criminal courtroom anywhere in America. The players: A judge, a prosecutor, a defense attorney and the accused. The assumption: That all parties involved enjoy a level playing toward the twin goals of discovering the truth and finding justice. The fact: In many criminal cases, the prosecution holds the key […]