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In 2023, the NC Human Identification & Forensic Analysis Lab received a three-year, $700,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Missing and Unidentified Human Remains Program to pay for advanced testing. North Carolina has a backlog of about 280 unidentified bodies.

The real challenge requires the doggedness of a genetic genealogist who’s willing to spend months or years tracking down a name.

https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/law-enforcement/cold-case-bodies-identification-nc-sta/

Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), & x-ray whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of , made important contributions to & research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠

Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.” 🧵

^^^ @GeneaSpy @IGHRGenealogy ^^^

Register to attend FREE via Zoom each evening 7:30 – 8:30 pm Eastern

Monday 28 July - My Cousin Trigger: The Power of the Family Legend

Tuesday 29 July 29 - How DNA Made a Family Out of Strangers
(birth family discoveries up to 2X great-grandparents)

Wednesday 30 July - The Genealogy of Paul Newman, Hollywood’s Favorite Son


@geneadons @genealogy

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https://ighr.gagensociety.org/ighr-2025/evening-sessions/

Molekulares Wettrüsten: Wie das sich gegen Feinde von innen verteidigt: Ein internationales Forschungsteam um die Freiburger Biolog*innen Dr. Wenjing Qi und Prof. Ralf Baumeister hat einen Mechanismus des evolutionären Wettrüstens in menschlichen Zellen entschlüsselt.

Die Ergebnisse geben Einblicke, wie mobile Elemente in der zelluläre Funktionen für sich vereinnahmen – und wie die Zelle sich dagegen wehren kann, um zum Beispiel oder chronische zu verhindern.

Mehr dazu: https://ufr.link/molekulares-wettruesten

Family History Helps ID Second ‘New’ Victim of Tulsa Race Massacre

The 1921 Graves Investigation & Intermountain Forensics are encouraging any descendants of the Goings, Goins, Gowens, etc., surname from many states—including Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky & Tennessee—to contact the genealogy team.

@geneadons @genealogy

https://www.forensicmag.com/3594-All-News/620026-Family-History-Helps-ID-Second-New-Victim-of-Tulsa-Race-Massacre/