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Columbia firm is world's first to market with stem cell drug
A Columbia-based biotechnology company said this week it received the world’s first government approval to market a stem cell drug, in Canada. Osiris Therapeutics, founded in 1992, spent 17 years developing a stem cell therapy that offers anti-...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Drug Trafficking, Technology, Chemicals, University of Maryland, College Park
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Maryland high court blocks request to reconsider DNA ruling
Maryland's highest court rejected a request to reconsider an April ruling that blocks state law enforcement from collecting DNA samples when a suspect is arrested, court officials said Friday.
The decision puts the case on track for an appeal to the U.S....Tags: Police Arrests, Criminals, Douglas F. Gansler, Chemicals, Law Enforcement
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DNA testing: Rodricks' Orwellian vision of the future
Dan Rodricks, whose essays I admire, is entitled to be wrong once in awhile ("DNA: Why wait for an arrest?" May 3). His willingness to subject everyone to DNA testing for use in solving future crimes is a concept very much in tune with George Orwell's...Tags: Human Body, Chemicals, DNA
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Hopkins engineer students create devices to help keep babies alive
Johns Hopkins University Engineering students unveiled devices Monday that they hope will lower the number of still births and deaths from fever-related illnesses in developing countries. FeverPoint is a screening test that uses a cotton thread and a...Tags: Malaria, Engineering, Biotechnology, Pneumonia, Technology
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Local biotech firm wins grant to develop vaccines for two viruses
Profectus BioSciences Inc., a Baltimore-based biotechnology company, said Wednesday that it won a $5.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support the development of a vaccine for a pair of contagious and deadly viruses that the U.S....Tags: Drugs and Medicines, AIDS, Preventative Medicine, HIV, Chemicals
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Status of ongoing cases unclear in wake of DNA ruling
When a high court ruling came down this week limiting the use of DNA evidence, police in the state were investigating 20 cases based on DNA collected after they arrested suspects charged with committing a violent crime or burglary. Now, it's unclear...
Tags: Police Arrests, Prosecution, Executive Branch, Baltimore County, Assault
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Md. authorities stop post-arrest DNA collection
Maryland authorities have stopped collecting DNA samples from suspects arrested on violent crime and burglary charges after the state's highest court ruled the crime-fighting tool that has helped solve dozens of cold cases unconstitutional. On Friday,...Tags: Scott Shellenberger, Executive Branch, Baltimore County, Chemicals, Lawyers
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DNA ruling: Crime victims lose more than 'privacy'
The criminal defense lawyers make the fair and typical plea for the "right to privacy" on behalf of the violent suspects they represent, but they ignore that the victim of a crime, be it an individual, a store or whatever, has not only lost their...Tags: Human Body, Chemicals, DNA
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County police will suspend collecting DNA evidence in some cases
The Baltimore County Police Department announced Friday that, in the wake of a Maryland Court of Appeals opinion, it will discontinue collection of DNA samples at the time of arrest from suspects charged with certain violent crimes. But in a press...Tags: Police Arrests, Prosecution, Baltimore County, Chemicals, Prisons
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DNA testing: Why not just trash the Fourth Amendment?
I found Dan Rodricks' commentary regarding DNA testing and the recent Maryland Court of Appeals ruling ("DNA: Why wait for an arrest?" May 3) to be quite interesting. He states at the end that he can't think of a good argument against his position that we...Tags: Human Body, DNA, Chemicals, Ellicott City
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DNA: Why wait for an arrest?
Swabbing the ol' buccal mucosa for the unique genetic code of someone merely arrested for a crime violates that someone's Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure. That's the opinion of the Maryland Court of Appeals, and this...
Tags: Science, Police Arrests, Prosecution, Criminals, Manhattan (New York City)
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DNA database has potential medical benefits
I would like to respond to Dan Rodricks' column on taking DNA samples from people who are arrested ("DNA: Why wait for an arrest?" May 3). I support his opinion, but I think he could have included more reasons, especially for a general gathering of DNA....Tags: Havre de Grace, Human Body, Chemicals, DNA, Common Cold
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