Tag Archives: genetic labeling

Local police surreptitiously add to DNA database

Slowly, and largely under the radar, a growing number of local law enforcement agencies across the country have moved into what had previously been the domain of the F.B.I. and state crime labs — amassing their own DNA databases of potential suspects, some collected with the donors’ knowledge, and some without it.  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/13/us/police-agencies-are-assembling-records-of-dna.html?hp&_r=0  These local […]

NWO looks to build global DNA database

More than 70 medical, research and advocacy organizations active in 41 countries and including the National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday that they had agreed to create an organized way to share genetic and clinical information. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/health/global-partners-agree-on-sharing-trove-of-genetic-data.html?ref=world Millions more people are expected to get their genes decoded in coming years, and the fear is that […]

Monsanto lobbies to kill GMO labeling law

An amendment inserted into the 2013 Farm Bill passed by the House of Representatives’ Agriculture Committee earlier this month would revoke the ability of individual states’ lawmakers to pass GMO-labeling laws, food advocates warn. http://www.ibtimes.com/monsanto-protection-act-20-would-ban-gmo-labeling-laws-state-level-1267629# The amendment, introduced by Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican, is the newest salvo in an ongoing battle between food […]

Guatamalan elite overturn genocide conviction

The decision by Guatemala’s Constitutional Court was a dramatic legal victory for General Ríos Montt, 86, and a blow to human rights advocates who had called his conviction a sign that Guatemala’s courts would no longer allow impunity for the country’s powerful. General Ríos Montt was found to be responsible as commander in chief for […]

Brain mapping to brain labeling

From gene mapping to gene labeling. Now your brain scan can label you with a “disorder”. The eventual aim of The Human Connectome Project is to understand how the healthy human brain is wired and the differences between individuals. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21660159 An individual’s brain wiring is related to their skills, sociability and aptitude. Psychiatric problems, such as […]

Genetic labeling for mental illness

Elite claim people with psychiatric illnesses tend to have a distinctive DNA pattern. Labeling or tagging for purported mental illness without distinction is around the corner. The emerging view of mental illness that aims to make diagnoses based on the genetic aberrations. The psychiatric illnesses seem very different — schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, major depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/health/study-finds-genetic-risk-factors-shared-by-5-psychiatric-disorders.html?hp […]