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For all you animal lovers out there...
http://www.animalliberationfront.com/Philosophy/Animal%20Testing/Vivisection/Technolgy4Viv.htm
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jc
Would be nice...
but only wishful thinking
"Clark, the former head of Merck manufacturing operations who took over as CEO last spring, said the company is looking for ways to "enhance efficiencies" and "improve the way we discover, develop, manufacture and market our medicines and vaccines and ensure that we get them to patients who need them as quickly, safely and efficiently as possible."
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jc
Thanks Chris.
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jack
iifida -
from http://www.familytreedna.com/forum/showthread.php?t=347&highlight=DNAPRint
"Family Tree DNA and DNAPrint
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Dear Forum Members,
A few comments have been voiced in this list about a slower pace of returned results over the past few months. Frankly, we see this too, and always look at the most practical ways to increase turnaround time while maintaining the highest accuracy and reliability.
It ultimately comes down to trained technicians, and because it's easier to sell then quickly add the best techs, we have decided to more narrowly focus our technicians' time exclusively towards working with our own products and therefore suspend the sale of DNAPrint.
Compared to Y-DNA, the DNAPrint test requires a disproportionate amount of time to prepare the DNA samples that we are sending to their lab.
Considering that our own business has been in a constant growth, therefore demanding more from our technicians as well as our customer service, we came to the conclusion that the offering of this test needs to be reevaluated, and until a final decision is made, all our efforts will be concentrated in the tests that we perform.
__________________
Max Blankfeld
Family Tree DNA
It would be product 15.
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jc
Sorry for the double post.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page at -
http://www.ethnoancestry.com/ancestrytests.html
BIOGEOGRAPHIC AUTOSOMAL TEST (PERCENTAGE OF 5 RACIAL - ETHNIC ANCESTRIES IN GENOME)"
Although they are using str, the end result seems to be the same as Ancestry.
Ah well, they aren't selling any yet, anyway.
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jc
BIOGEOGRAPHIC AUTOSOMAL TEST (PERCENTAGE OF 5 RACIAL - ETHNIC ANCESTRIES IN GENOME)"
Although they are using str, the end result seems to be the same as Ancestry.
Ah well, they aren't selling any yet, anyway.
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jc
Competition?
http://www.ethnoancestry.com/ancestrytests.html
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jc
Just asking a question, Doc.
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jc
I don't know much about them, but their website pretty much sucks. How many years have they been around?
And the members don't seem to be overly concerned with fashion -
http://www.biodefensecouncil.org/Who.php
Seems like some heavy hitters.
Or do you think they are just another bunch of liars?
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jack
Doc...
Apparently the BioDefense Council has heard of Tony Frudakis and DNAG - http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051106/nysu031.html?.v=5
Do you think that may be worthwhile?
"So you are saying Frudakis was trying to "keep people off the trail" of his valuable revenue generating forensics technology, even though all his patent applications have been fully published for all the public to see? Please try again! LOL!"
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jack
Spook -
I can't recall anyone "post(ing) information about impending press releases" with any accuracy. Or are you speaking of any post relating to upcoming news.
Like jever and illwill.
If so, I don't see why someone would take them seriously.
Maybe I'm not understanding too well this morning.
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jack
Good to hear this, WTP
"BTW, the other patent application that was "Final Rejected" was amended by the company and the response was recently forwarded to the Examiner for consideration:
http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_CH/.cmd/ad/.ar/sa.getBib/.c/6_0_69/.ce/7_....
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jack
Everything you wanted to know about EPO monomers vs. dimers (written by our esteemed Arthur J. Sytkowski)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/95/3/1184
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jack
here's a cut 'n paste from an email I recently sent to investor relations about the patents. Very little info.
Hello Jack, thank you for your comments in your email. We have received your message and appreciate your contacting the Investor Relations department at DNAPrint genomics (OTC BB: DNAG.OB). In answer to your question, the patenting process is on going and our company as all companies who file patents are negotiating with the patent examiners on claims that we can or cannot have in our patents. We will do what is necessary to protect our intellectual property and if that includes filing additional claims or challenging the U.S. Patent office rejection of claims then that is what we will do to protect our property. We do appreciate our investors and are continuing improving our efforts to communicate as much to you as we possibly can.
Much of our Company information can be obtained online from our website http://www.dnaprint.com or for your convenience, you may click on the following link which will bring you directly to the Investor Relations section of our website http://www.dnaprint.com/welcome/investorrelations/ . Here you will be able to get the answers to most of your questions. The Investor Relations site links directly to the SEC site where you can get the most updated financial information.
Thank you again for your interest in DNAPrint genomics, Inc.
Appreciatively,
Investors Relations
Investor Relations
DNAPrint Genomics, Inc.
941-366-3400
dnap@dnaprint.com
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From: Jack xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wed 8/31/2005 2:14 PM
To: dnap
Subject: Patents
Hi-
Can you tell me if there are any plans to file new claims on the patents that were rejected?
Thanks for your help
"To further finance this effort we will also be seeking funding for DNAPrint Pharmaceuticals."
Does this mean what i hope it doesn't mean?
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jack
Frog -
your post virtually cries out for elaboration.
Good one!
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jack
Thanks Stefan
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jack
It IS great news, and because the company needs money so badly, at the end of the day we are left with less.
The horns of a dilemma.
How are they ever going to pay for clinical trials?
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jack
Court TV looking very good for DNAG.
Does this man the sp will drop?
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jack
Frog -
It looks like quatrains.
The man is a prophet.
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jack
Don't know if this was previously posted...
http://www.aamc.org/newsroom/reporter/may05/viewpoint.htm
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jack
Ice -
I hear ya! And I'm roughly in the same boat as you.
Right now, it seems to me that they have overestimated the value of the forensic market, while not having the resources to use their BGA in drug trials.
EPO is a long way down the road and I wonder if DNAG is spending too much time on the runway.
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jack
Hmmm...you may wish to re-evaluate that horse.
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jack
Mention of DNAP -
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article295543.ece
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jack
"The company says the so-called DNAWitness test...."
SO-CALLED???
LMAO
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jack
Nope. I did not attend the stockholders meeting.
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jack
Just some info I found about "Final Rejections". The DNAP patents are not lost at all. If I recall correctly, many patents that have recieved the "Final Rejection" are simply re-worded and re-submitted, but I am absolutely no authority on this subject.
From http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/comm106/106patent.html
Reply After Final
The inventor can make a Reply after the Examiner has made a Final Rejection. Often, these Replies amend the application to conform with any requirements the application has made.
Advisory Action
Sometimes, when a Reply After Final has been made, the Examiner will issue an Advisory Action indicating the status of the application. The Final Rejection is still in force, but the inventor may have gained some ground in the application process.
Appeal, Continuing Application or Abandonment
While an appeal can be made appealing the Final Rejection, inventors often either re-file the patent application or concede the Examiner's rejection(s) and let the application go abandoned.
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jack
Thanks.
Doc sez -
""I'm only here to tell you the facts about it. "
he then signs off with -
"IMO"
Our good Doctor seems to be the personification of the word "oxymoron"
LOL!
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jack
Also from the Miami Herald -
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/11993639.htm
TECHNOLOGY
New crime-fighting tool made in Sarasota
A Sarasota company has developed a new crime-fighting tool through the use of DNA.
BY WANDA J. DeMARZO
wdemarzo@herald.com
New ways of analyzing DNA can tell investigators a suspect's likely ethnic heritage and skin color.
And that may only be the beginning.
The future use of new DNA analysis techniques could reveal a person's eye color, hair color, height, and possibly some facial features, said Tony Frudakis, the founder of Sarasota-based DNAPrint Genomics.
''We don't know what the limits are,'' he said. ``How much more we'll be able to identify about a person. It's a grand experiment.''
Frudakis' company's innovations have reopened an old Hollywood murder case. DNA from blood found at the scene was analyzed and used to create a sketch of the killer. Now police have more than just a vague description from witnesses to go on.
One of the first times that DNAPrint's new test was used, it led to the capture of a Louisiana serial killer.
For almost two years, police searched for the rapist and murderer of more than half a dozen women in the Baton Rouge area.
For some time, a multiagency task force had been searching for a white male suspect after an eyewitness reported seeing a white man in the area of the homicides.
Investigators had even taken DNA samples from more than 1,000 white suspects.
In February 2003, DNAPrint offered to test semen that had been collected at the crime scenes. It used the DNA to determine a likely racial mix and skin color.
The results: the killer was a light-skinned black man.
Four days later, police arrested and charged Derrick Todd Lee, who was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Later the same year, 2004, he was convicted of another murder and sentenced to death.
Since then, DNAPrint has been involved in more than 80 criminal investigations, including three cases in South Florida.
The results are better than eyewitness accounts, Frudakis said.
''Many people will say someone is Hispanic, and the person might actually be Native American or Asian,'' he said. ''It really helps investigators narrow their field of suspects.'' The company recently completed a kit that will be marketed to law-enforcement agencies and forensic labs for $50 to $100, Frudakis said. DNAPrint currently does the testing for $1,000.
From the Miami herald -
Author, technology help put face on homicide
New forensic technology is reopening a decade-old Hollywood homicide, thanks in part to best-selling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell, author of The Body Farm.
BY WANDA J. DeMARZO
wdemarzo@herald.com
With purse and package in hand, Mildred Weiss walked out of her Polk Street apartment in Hollywood, on her way to exchange a gold blouse, a present she had bought for her niece.
It was around 9 a.m. March 9, 1994.
The killer struck in the elevator, dragging the white-haired, 5-foot, 90-pound woman to a second-floor laundry room, bashing the frail Weiss with a bottle and slamming her head against a concrete wall.
By the time residents of the Town Gardens Apartments found Weiss, moaning and bleeding on the stone floor, it was too late. Rescue workers rushed her to Memorial Regional Hospital, where she died on the operating table. She died six days before her 86th birthday.
The case has baffled and haunted Hollywood crime-scene investigator Sue Courtney and others for years.
Now, thanks to the help of best-selling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell and cutting-edge forensic technology, police have a sketch of the suspect in the slaying of the former legal secretary who emigrated to the U.S. from the Polish-Russian border region when she was 5.
Courtney and other investigators meticulously gathered evidence from the laundry room -- blood spatters on the floor and walls, a pair of white blood-stained shorts, and a sliver of a finger in a rolled up sports section of The Herald, stuffed in a corner bucket.
They believe the suspect sliced off a tiny piece of his finger with a box cutter while cutting open the package Weiss carried.
Residents gave cops a description of someone they had seen hanging around just before the murder: a young black man of medium build, wearing a black baseball cap, a black T-shirt, white cut-off shorts and white sneakers.
A general description, not much to go on.
Detectives say a young homeless man had taken refuge in the building's meter room. They found a grocery cart with old newspapers in there.
They figured the man killed Weiss, then cleaned up in the laundry room, changed and left behind his bloodied white shorts.
From eyewitness accounts, detectives obtained a composite of the suspect, but got nowhere.
Until now.
A REGULAR VISITOR
One day earlier this year, Courtney chatted with Cornwell. The well-known crime novelist had become a regular visitor to Hollywood police headquarters.
The women first met several years ago at the National Forensic Academy in Knoxville, Tenn., where Cornwell occasionally teaches. They instantly hit it off.
Cornwell, a former crime reporter for The Charlotte Observer newspaper, ended up adopting the Hollywood Police Department, spending time in the crime lab and riding with Courtney to crime scenes.
It was all part of the research Cornwell does to give authenticity to her dozen or so novels. She even gave the department a $118,000 Hummer H1, customized to hold evidence bags, fingerprint kits and other equipment.
Courtney, who has been with the department for 21 years, talked to Cornwell about the frustration of the Weiss murder, a case she has often thought about for 11 years.
''This particular homicide is that one case that stays with you as one you just hope will end with an arrest and conviction,'' Courtney said. ``The victim was elderly, and, although I never met Mildred before her death, with her being so petite and fragile -- I can only imagine the horror she went through that morning.''
As Weiss lay dying, the killer rummaged through her purse, smearing blood on her wallet, leaving behind credit cards and overlooking two bank envelopes with $70. He fled with a handful of change.
''The killer showed a total disregard for life. Weiss died for a couple of dollars, if that much,'' Courtney said.
The department had no strong leads.
Cornwell, who had learned of new DNA technology developed by a Sarasota group, suggested Courtney submit samples to the facility.
The company, DNAPrint Genomics, had developed a test that can create a genetic sketch of what a suspect might look like.
From DNA left at a scene, the $1,000 test can tell what percentage of a person's genetic makeup is likely to be European, Asian, African or Native American.
That could quickly help police narrow down a list of suspects.
Then, DNAPrint Genomics can consult a book of mug shots -- submitted by volunteers worldwide who have had their own DNA screened.
''It's like a fuzzy photo of someone,'' said scientist Tony Frudakis, founder of DNAPrint.
''It's our feeling that really, what we're doing is placing an eyewitness at the crime scene, just by looking at the DNA,'' Zach Gaskin, the company technical coordinator of forensics, told The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in December.
``If a guy is 95 percent sub-Saharan African, you know you're not looking for someone who is Caucasian, East Asian or Hispanic.''
Frudakis said the test is accurate to within a few percentage points.
AUTHOR'S DONATION
Intrigued by the Weiss case, Cornwell donated the $1,000 to cover the cost of the test.
She also chartered a private plane May 20 to fly Courtney and herself to Sarasota, carrying a DNA sample from the Weiss killing.
''This technology had been used in several high-profile cases and with good results,'' Cornwell said recently.
The test is credited with assisting in the arrest of a serial rapist and killer in Louisiana and, most recently, in a case involving a woman's allegation she found a finger in a bowl of chili at a California Wendy's, Cornwell said.
``It's cutting edge, a different type of profiling, but one based on science, not fortune-cookie profiling.''
The DNA sample from the Weiss killing revealed the suspect was, indeed, black.
On June 1, the company submitted its findings to Hollywood police.
''The DNA matches the composite we have,'' Hollywood Sgt. Scott Pardon said. ``We are now calling the man in the composite a suspect.''
Hollywood had entered the suspect's DNA in state and federal databases. But so far, they've had no hits.
Investigators believe he may have been arrested on misdemeanor charges like vagrancy, trespassing, or disturbing the peace.
They need a name.
Detectives are planning to check local homeless shelters and other places to see if anyone knows the suspect.
'Somewhere out there, a cop is going to see the sketch and hear the suspect has a missing fingertip and think to himself: `I know who that is, I arrested him once,' '' homicide detective Billy Ferguson said.
``It's going to be a police officer who breaks this case for us one day. I know it.''
Weiss' niece, Lynn Shapiro, 50, of New York City, waits for that day.
''My aunt had no children, so my older sister and I were like her children,'' she said.
``I still have a postcard she mailed me the day before she was murdered. She was just the sweetest person.''
FSAIL -
Yes, I hope there is something just around the corner that will increase shareholder value significantly, but that doesnt seem seem to be in the cards when we already know the timeframe for ovanome and EPO. That leaves only something we don't have a clue about to come out and startle our pps (which could easily happen, like with patent news).
My guess is that the company will use its newly created wealth to aquire a drug company, and I suppose thats a Good Thing, but its more than difficult to maintain a level of optimism in the face of this upcoming "reverse split".
Anyway, thats my 2 cents, and worth only what you paid for it.
best of luck
jack
It's a novel method of increasing the value of company-controlled shares 10 to 20 times while having the shareholder finance the whole deal. To do this so-called reverse split on the heels of seemingly endless dilution is _______ (you fill in the blank).
I've voted NO.
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jack
Yep. For a minute, I thought that it was a pr written by DNAP and that they had just forgotten to include their own name (LOL).
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jc
Interesting article, but unfortunately, no mention of DNAP.
http://www.forbes.com/home/healthcare/2005/05/10/cx_mh_0509racemedicine.html
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jack
Don't get me wrong, I want the link between DNAP and IBM/NationalGeo as bad as anyone else. After all, I do own stock in this company and it would be great publicity.
However, the company selling the kits re: your post # 24199, is familytreedna, and although they sell lots of dna tests, I cannot find any that specifically connect to DNAP. Neither can I find any connections from DNAP to familytreedna.The company that is referenced in DNAPs PR is pearl street selling family tree legends.
At this point in time, there does not appear to be any connection between DNAP and familytreedna, the company selling the kits. Hope I'm wrong.
Too many darn families involved!
LOL
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jack
OK, I give up.
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jack
familytreelegends is a software from pearl street. has nothing to do with familytree.com that I can see.
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jack
From the page -
"To order the ANCESTRYbyDNA test, click on this link: http://www.familytreedna.com/products.html#dnaprintorder "
This link takes you to a pricing and order page that does not contain anything about DNAP that I can see.
Although I'd love to be wrong.
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jack
I don't smoke.
Frome the page -
"This test is managed by Family Tree DNA, but is performed by DNAPrint Genomics
To learn about and possibly order the test, go to: http://www.familytreedna.com/faqdnaprint.html. The test costs $153 for those who have already had a Y-chromosome or mtDNA test at FTDNA, or $189 otherwise."
Try the link
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jack