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Beginning with an undercover sting stopping the commercial whaling industry at the point of sale, new DNA databases have begun to help environmentalists and regulators uncover the truth behind everything from the origin of ivory from poached elephants to cheating in fishing contests.

The FDA concluded products from cloned animals are safe for human consumption.  More evidence is needed.

Researchers at the University of Toyama say they have created the world’s first stable artificial DNA molecules, made from mainly artificial bits to resemble their natural counterparts. Scientists from all over the world have been trying to do this for the promise of using artificial DNA to create biotechnology materials, including powerful DNA computers. Now there’s new hope that DNA could play a major role in making computers run with little or no external power.

In a new scientific technique that could prove a boon to legal cases, samples of DNA from a healthy person can be compared against a claimant’s DNA.