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Morning Star :: 50,000 protest in Berlin to protect farming from big business

Posted: January 19, 2015 at 2:47 am

Over 50,000 people took to the streets of the German capital Berlin on Saturday to demand that the government changes its farming policy and halt the increasing industrialisation of agriculture.

The mass protest against factory farming and genetic engineering of crops was timed to coincide with International Green Week, an agricultural trade fair held annually in the city.

Under the slogan: We are sick of agribusiness, protesters called for a worldwide right to food, legal restrictions to protect food and agriculture from genetic manipulation and an end to the establishment of mega-factory farms.

The protesters marched from Potsdam Square to the Federal Chancellery demanding rejection of the planned Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement between the European Union and the US.

Jochen Fritz, spokesman for the alliance of more than 120 environmental, consumer and development organisations behind the protest, said that TTIP would ruin many farmers livelihoods.

TTIP only serves global concerns and will take away the means of existence from many farms here and across the world, he said.

Mr Fritz added that the agreement would also jeopardise consumer standards and that more than three-quarters of German pig farmers had had to give up their businesses since 2000, with large meat companies increasingly taking over livestock farming.

He called for agriculture to be based on regional markets.

Eating is political. Every single decision I make about what to buy is determined by how the animals are kept or

what grows in our fields, he added.

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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – LIVE Relentless Failed ”DNA BOMB” (Advanced Warfare Multiplayer) – Video

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Krasse Ideen! – HBRa3 – DNA Bomb mit jeder Waffe! – Advanced Warfare (Deutsch/German) – Video

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TRINITY ACEV1+DNA – Video

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CoD Advanced Warfare: *Solo* "Triple DNA Bomb" w/ "Royalty Camo KF5" – Video

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Advanced Warfare: Recovery Uplink: Dna Bomb – Video

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Road to DNA: So Close Yet So Far… – Video

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'SNAPSHOT' OF MURDER DNA could reveal face of killer in unsolved SC case

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There were no witnesses to the gruesome murder of a South Carolina mother and her 3-year-old daughter inside a busy apartment complex four years ago. But a new technology that can create an image of someone using DNA samples left at crime scenes might bring police closer to catching the killer.

Reston, Va.-based Parabon Nanolabs, with funding from the Department of Defense, has debuted a breakthrough type of analysis called DNA phenotyping which the company says can predict a person's physical appearance from the tiniest DNA samples, like a speck of blood or strand of hair.

The DNA phenotyping service, commercially known as "Snapshot," could put a face on millions of unsolved cases, including international ones, andgenerate investigative leads when the trail has gone cold.

"This is particularly useful when there are no witnesses, no hits in the DNA database and nothing to go on," Dr. Ellen McRae Greytak, Parabon's director of bioinformatics, told FoxNews.com.

- Dr. Ellen McRae Greytak, Parabon Nanolabs

"Traditional forensic analysis treats DNA as a fingerprint, whereas Snapshot treats it as a blueprint -- a genetic description of a person from which physical appearance can be inferred," Greytak said.

Parabon's new technology reads the parts of the human genome that code for the differences in physical appearance between people. Snapshot is able to predict such critical traits as skin color, hair color, eye color and face shape. It can also predict the individual's ancestry as well as highly-detailed traits, like freckles.

Using sophisticated computer algorithms that have been trained on thousands of reference samples, Snapshot translates this raw genetic code into predictions of physical traits. These are then combined to create a composite profile, or "digital mugshot" of an unknown suspect -- with remarkable accuracy, according to the company.

"Traits are generally predicted with more than 80 percent confidence, and importantly, Snapshot also reports which phenotypes can be excluded with more than 95 percent confidence," said Greytak.

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'Midsomer' murder: DNA screening begins in hunt for Valerie Graves' killer

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She was bludgeoned as she house-sat with her sister Jan, mother Eileen and her sister's partner, Nigel Acres, while the property's owners holidayed abroad over Christmas.

More than 9,500 people have been interviewed by police, a 20,000 reward has been offered, a BBC Crimewatch appeal has been made and a limited DNA match of a suspect has been yielded.

However, despite an exhaustive inquiry, no one has been charged. On the first-year anniversary of the murder, officers handed out leaflets and put up posters about the DNA screening.

They asked for men aged over 17 who live, work or visit Bosham to provide a DNA mouth swab and thumbprint to eliminate them from the inquiry.

The death of Ms Graves shocked the small community of Bosham, which featured in an episode of the ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders.

A DNA screening is taking place in the village of Bosham (Christopher Pledger)

Last month, Ms Graves's two children Tim Wood, 32, and 35-year-old Jemima Harrison spoke - along with Mr Acres - ahead of the first anniversary of her murder.

The family said Christmas was put "on hold" as they faced their first festive season without her and as her murderer still remains at large.

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Scientists extract extinct giant kangaroo DNA

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Eric Hopton for redOrbit.com Your Universe Online

The Australian red kangaroo is a big powerful animal but the science of DNA extraction has helped paint a picture of one of its ancient ancestors that makes the red look like a puny geek.

Take a red kangaroo, then double or triple its size to around ten feet in height and over 500 pounds in weight. Next, give it a set of large, nasty, hoof-like claws and then hit it in the face with a shovel. What you finish up with should resemble the long extinct giant short-faced kangaroo. This was the largest kangaroo to walk the Earth and, with its flat face and forward-pointing eyes, it was a strange looking beast.

Scientists have finally managed to extract DNA from some of these giant kangaroos the mysterious marsupial megafauna that roamed Australia over 40,000 years ago.

A team of scientists led by Dr Bastien Llamas and Professor Alan Cooper from the University of Adelaides Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) have extracted DNA sequences from two species: the Giant Short-faced (Simosthenurus occidentalis) and a giant wallaby (Protemnodon anak).

These two fossils were discovered in a Tasmanian cave. The bones came from animals that died around 45,000 years ago. The cold dry cave provided good preservation conditions in the cave. This allowed enough short pieces of DNA to survive for the research team to reconstruct partial mitochondrial genomes which are genetic messages passed from mother to offspring. Mitochondrial genomes are commonly widely used to establish evolutionary relationships between fossil species.

The ancient DNA reveals that extinct giant wallabies are very close relatives of large living kangaroos, such as the red and western grey kangaroos, says lead author Dr. Bastien Llamas, ACAD senior research associate. Their skeletons had suggested they were quite primitive macropods a group that includes kangaroos, wallabies, pademelons and quokkas but now we can place giant wallaby much higher up the kangaroo family tree.

The research has also confirmed that short-faced kangaroos are a highly distinct lineage of macropods, which had been predicted on their unusual anatomy.

Scientists have previously obtained complete nuclear or mitochondrial genomes from extinct megafauna in Eurasia, the Americas, and New Zealand. Fossils of the giant short-faced kangaroo, like the Naracoorte World Heritage fossil deposits found in South Australia, have been discovered in many parts of Australia, including the, Lake Menindee in New South Wales, Darling Downs in Queensland. But the poorer preservation conditions and the age of Australian megafauna remains have meant that retrieval of its DNA has been impossible until now, leaving scientists just bones for analysis.

In addition to poor DNA preservation, most of the extinct Australian megafauna do not have very close relatives roaming around today, which makes it more difficult to retrieve and interpret the genetic data, says Dr. Llamas. Together with my colleagues Alan Cooper and Paul Brotherton, we had to think hard about experimental and bioinformatics approaches to overcome more than 10 million years of divergent evolution between the extinct and living species.

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