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PROVO, Utah, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Ancestry.com, the world's largest online resource for family history, today launched DNA Ancestry -- a new service combining the precision of DNA testing with Ancestry.com's unrivaled collection of 5 billion names in historical records and the site's unmatched online family history community. This DNA testing service, online at http://dna.ancestry.com, provides Ancestry.com's growing network of more than 15 million users a tool that helps solve family-tree mysteries through science. By taking a simple cheek-swab test and comparing DNA test results in DNA Ancestry's expanding results database, individuals may be able to extend the branches of their family trees, prove (or disprove) family legends, discover living relatives they never knew existed and find new leads where traditional paper trails dead end.
Fall foliage grandly emerging
Wonderful weather continues drawing Hiking Spree trekkers to Metro Parks, Serving Summit County, trails, gardeners continue their frost-free harvests, and fall foliage features are slow to emerge. Many landscape plants are at their peak, from the cheery starlike flowers of blue, white and purple asters to a range of fruiting and flowering shrubs, including smooth witherod viburnum and seven-sun flower. Now for our Almanac Q&A for the week. Q: What in heaven's name is smooth witherod viburnum? A: Admittedly that is a rhetorical question. The question walkers at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center's Secrest Arboretum more commonly ask is: What is that heavenly plant? The smooth witherod viburnum that is a current craze for plant lovers is Viburnum nudum Winterthur.
CHP has tips for teens, parents
About a dozen teens and parents, some covering their eyes, watched the gruesome scene at Vacaville High School on Thursday night during a class designed to teach teens the consequences of unsafe driving. The vivid footage, part of "Red Asphalt V," was shot by CHP officers at accident scenes and is used in the CHP "Start Smart" classes to get their point across. "My personal mission is the safety of you guys," CHP Officer Marvin Williford said to the teens. "You don't have a button to push to restart the game. Dead is dead, and that is it." Start Smart classes are designed for teens who recently got their driver's licenses, or will soon, and for their parents. The course is free and covers common factors in teen crashes and how to avoid them. It also provides information about provisional driver's licenses.
Paul Brock Jr.: Downtown Is Thriving Despite Realty Downturn
Downtown Chattanooga continues to thrive despite a national real estate downturn, RiverCity Company President Paul K. Brock Jr. told the Rotary Club on Thursday.
"We are still riding the crest of the wave of the 21st Century Waterfront," Mr. Brock said.
He also said Chattanooga should aim to become "a sustainable community" with a focus on "green" buildings, recycling and other earth-friendly measures. He said it is a great way to market the city "and also it is the right thing to do."
He also said Chattanooga should "do all we can to retain college-educated young people."
Mr. Brock said the RiverCity Company is joining in a partnership with UTC and the Lyndhurst and Benwood foundation promoting green buildings. He said the new Greenlife Grocery on Manufacturers Road is projected to be the first and some 18-20 others are on the way.
RNA shown to silence cancer suppressor gene
One way cancer arises is when tumour suppressor genes that normally keep cell growth in check are mysteriously turned off. Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that at least one tumour suppressor gene is in fact turned off by a 'noncoding' single stranded RNA nucleic acid similar to its double-stranded DNA cousin. The so-called antisense RNA is made by a gene on a neighbouring strand of DNA. Most genes in the human genome have associated with them nearby antisense RNAs, which, as their name implies, are complementary to the amino acid sequences in a 'sense' RNA to which they may bind and switch off. Reporting on the discovery in the 10 January issue of Nature, the Johns Hopkins team says an absolute key to fighting cancer is to figure out why and how tumour suppressor genes get silenced and identifying means of switching them back on chemically.
Should Strauss be recalled?
There is no doubt that Andrew Strauss is a class act.
He proved that on his Test debut in 2004 with a century and has been a consistently prolific run-scorer since.
Even the great players have their dips in form, and a reliable technique which saw him score fluently with cuts and pulls was gradually exploited by the Australians in the Ashes whitewash.
But after being dropped for the trip to Sri Lanka he has been recalled to the Test team to tour New Zealand, and is already acclimatising there in domestic cricket, reportedly feeling refreshed and encouraged about his game.
So should Strauss make an immediate return to the team?
One of the few plus points of the tour to Sri Lanka was the opening partnership of Alastair Cook and Michael Vaughan, which averaged 52 in the three Tests.
Trial starts for Windsorite accused of killing wife in Mich.
PONTIAC, Mich. -- Windsor native Daniel Pittao was made out Monday as either an abusive monster with a hair-trigger temper who slit his estranged wife's throat a decade ago, or a loving father who is the victim of hearsay testimony in a case without a single shred of physical evidence linking him to the murder. Pittao is on trial for open murder -- jurors can find him guilty of first- or second-degree murder, or can acquit him -- for the beating-and-slashing death of Tamara Pittao, 30. Michigan does not have the death penalty, though Pittao faces possible life in prison. The couple was going through an often acrimonious divorce when she was found dead in her Novi apartment, on Thanksgiving Day, 1997. .
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