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#4 DNA match led police to suspect in toddler murder

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MASON CITY | DNA analysis helped Mason City police and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation make an arrest in the 1994 murder of 20-month-old John Joseph Snyder Jr.

Michael Jason Cisneros, 37, formerly of Mason City, is accused of first-degree murder in the Mason City toddler's death.

The arrest was announced July 15 by Mason City Police Chief Mike Lashbrook during a news conference at the Police Department.

The boy was reported missing by his father, John Joseph Snyder Sr., on July 20, 1994. Snyder said he put his son to bed at 11 p.m. July 19 and awoke the next morning to find the boy missing from their apartment at 10 S. Adams Ave.

Snyder and the boy's mother, Lisa Sellmann, did not reside together at the time.

The boy's body was found July 21 snagged on a tree in Willow Creek just east of the Pennsylvania Avenue bridge.

According to autopsy reports, the cause of death was drowning and a crushing skull injury.

In 1994, DNA analysis was not done on evidence as the technology was not yet available.

But on Dec. 2, 2002, the Police Department was able to submit the evidence associated with the case and obtain DNA results. Those results were retained as part of the case file.

On Dec. 19, 2012, Cisneros was transported to the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Oakdale.

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2013: The Best Long Reads of the Year

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As the United States geared up for an overhaul of its health-care system, we asked the provocative question: just why are new drugs so expensive? In our November cover story, A Tale of Two Drugs, veteran journalist Barry Werth took an in-depth look at how pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies determine the price of drugs, examining a life-saving treatment for cystic fibrosis and a cancer drug with marginal benefits. His insightful analysis suggests that putting a value on new drugs will only get more complicated and fraught with ethical challenges as treatments become more effective but often targeted at relatively small patient populations.

In another probing look at a current controversy, The Real Privacy Problem presented a novel and nuanced argument about the danger of increased information gathering by governments and Web companies. Written by Evgeny Morozov, one of todays most thoughtful essayists on the implications of advanced digital technology, the essay will give you newand smarterreasons to fret over infringements on our privacy. Likewise, you will want to read the essay by MIT Technology Reviews editor-in-chief, Jason Pontin, on how the Internet is raising complex dilemmas around free speech.

Advanced digital technologies are also changing employment opportunities. Indeed, there is growingalbeit still controversialevidence that automation, artificial intelligence, and advanced software could be destroying more jobs than they are creating. In How Technology Is Destroying Jobs, MIT Technology Reviews editor, David Rotman, explained how economists and technologists are thinking about the future of work.

In a series of other features, we brought you to the forefront of some of todays most exciting research. In Repairing Bad Memories, noted science journalist Stephen Hall profiled one neuroscientist who is working toward the creation of treatments that might help to erase traumatic memories. In Driverless Cars Are Further Away Than You Think, news and analysis editor Will Knight went to the test tracks of the leading German auto manufacturers to see just what is the likely future of driverless cars. And in Thinking in Silicon, our San Francisco-based senior IT editor, Tom Simonite, explained how several leading research groups are reinventing the computer chip, creating powerful new ways to overcome many of todays most difficult problems. Elsewhere, Simonite went inside the efforts to save one of the Webs most cherished projects in The Decline of Wikipedia.

There are few technologies more fundamental to our lives and well-being than the ones used to grow our food. Thats why few technologies are as controversial as genetically modified foods. In our latest cover story, Why We Will Need Genetically Modified Foods, we argue that a growing human population and the increasing impacts of climate change will make it critical that we use genetic engineering as a tool to develop more productive crops.

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Psoriatic nails – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Psoriatic nails Classification and external resources

Psoriasis of a fingernail

Psoriatic nails is a nail disease. It is common in those suffering from psoriasis, with reported incidences varying from 10% to 78%. Elderly patients and those with psoriatic arthritis are more likely to have psoriatic nails.[1]:7812

The Nail Psoriasis Severity Index (NAPSI) is a numeric, reproducible, objective, simple tool for evaluation of nail psoriasis.[3] It evaluates several signs separately, each on a 13 scale: pitting, Beau's lines, subungual hyperkeratosis and onycholysis. A 2005 study proposed a modified NAPSI scale for persons with psoriasis and named the title of their publication "Modification of the Nail Psoriasis Severity Index".[4] Then, in 2007, a study found that there was a high level of inter-rater variability of the 2003 NAPSI scale and proposed another index which was, like the 2005 article, a modification of the 2003 article, and was named modified NAPSI.[5] A 2008 study found that Cannavo's qualitative system[6] correlated with NAPSI (P<0.001) and is less time-consuming.[7]

There is a risk of misdiagnosis with onychomycosis.

The causes of nail psoriasis are unknown. It has been suggested that fungi may play a role.[8]

There exist numerous treatments for nail psoriasis but there is little information concerning their effectiveness and safety.[9] Treatments include topical, intralesional, radiation, systemic, and combination therapies.

Available studies lack sufficient power to extrapolate a standardized therapeutic regimen.[9] As of April 2009, an assessment of the evidence for the efficacy and safety of the treatments for nail psoriasis is in progress.[20]

Active clinical trials investigating nail psoriasis:[22]

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Le psoriasis (du grec ruption galeuse, psore ayant aussi autrefois dsign la gale en France) est une maladie auto-immune de la peau d'origine inconnue et non contagieuse. Cette affection dermatologique touche 1 3% de la population mondiale.

Dans sa forme bnigne et typique, le psoriasis se caractrise par des lsions rouges et squameuses du cuir chevelu, des genoux et des coudes, associe une atteinte des ongles. Dans les cas graves, l'atteinte cutane peut tre gnralise (rythrodermie) et il peut exister des atteintes des articulations. Cette dermatose volue de faon chronique avec des pousses entrecoupes de priodes de rmissions de dure variable au cours desquelles les lsions sont minimes. Aucun traitement permettant la gurison n'est connu; le traitement propos permet uniquement de contrler l'volution de la maladie, en permettant la rgression transitoire plus ou moins complte des lsions. Le traitement est adapt en fonction de la gravit et du retentissement sur la qualit de vie des patients.

Les causes prcises en sont inconnues bien que, dans prs de 30% des cas, une prdisposition familiale existe, surtout si des facteurs externes viennent se rajouter. La maladie aurait des composantes gntiques, auto-immunes[1], microbiologique et environnementale ou alimentaire (l'arrt de la consommation de produits laitiers ou certaines autres denres reviennent souvent dans les tmoignages de personnes ayant russi s'en dbarrasser sans faire intervenir un traitement en parallle[rf.ncessaire]).

L'piderme se renouvelle trop rapidement, en seulement quatre six jours, au lieu des trois semaines habituelles ce qui engendre des inflammations localises. Les cellules pidermiques s'accumulent la surface de la peau et forment une couche de pellicules blanches appeles squames. Parfaitement inoffensives, celles-ci ont pourtant le dsavantage d'tre inesthtiques. La prsence de nombreux leucocytes dans le derme a suggr le rle du systme immunitaire.

Comme indiqu prcdemment, il existe pour un petit tiers des personnes atteintes une composante familiale au psoriasis (restent dterminer les autres facteurs entrant en jeu): prs de 30% des patients atteints ont un membre de leur famille ayant galement la mme maladie[2]. Un certain nombre de gnes ont t identifis comme marqueurs potentiels de risque, dont le PSORS. Le plus important semble tre le PSORS1 situ sur le chromosome 6 et qui serait responsable de prs du tiers des psoriasis familiaux[3]. Seize gnes (en 2012[4]) ont des mutations pouvant favoriser cette maladie.

Les pousses de psoriasis sont parfois lies au stress. Elles peuvent aussi avoir pour origine un facteur infectieux (infection streptococcique, par exemple). Leur frquence est trs variable et, d'une manire gnrale, le facteur dclenchant de la pousse n'est pas identifiable. La consommation excessive d'alcool est un facteur d'aggravation du psoriasis.

Certains mdicaments exacerbent parfois le psoriasis mais leur arrt doit tre discut au cas par cas, celui-ci pouvant comporter d'autres risques, cardio-vasculaires en particulier. Ce sont essentiellement ceux de la classe des bta-bloquants. D'autres molcules ont t rapportes comme potentiellement aggravantes, avec un risque cependant moindre. Ce sont les sartans[5] et l'nalapril[rf.souhaite].

Au contraire, l'exposition solaire a un rle protecteur net. Durant la grossesse, une diminution des pousses avec une aggravation par contre la suite de celle-ci est gnralement observe. Le mcanisme invoqu est celui d'une immuno-modulation par les taux levs de progestrone et d'strognes qui entranent une stimulation de l'immunit dpendant des lymphocytes B mais une diminution de l'activit immunitaire des lymphocytes T. La progestrone est reconnue comme ayant un rle immuno-modulateur cl durant la grossesse[6].

Certaines formes peuvent se dvelopper la suite d'un traumatisme articulaire.

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