Hair Samples

The Union Health Ministry has issued guidelines for the ethical use of "leftover, de-identified and anonymous" samples generated from a diagnostic or surgical procedure on patients for commercial use.

Hair and bone samples sent for DNA mitochondrial profiling by police have been confirmed to be of Shradha Walkar who was killed by her 28-year-old live-in partner Aaftab Amin Poonawala, a senior official said in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Researchers say that with DNA samples, they can predict the color of eyes, skin and hair.

The Hyderabad High Court has said excise officials cannot forcibly collect blood, nail and hair samples from actor Charmme Kaur, who is among a dozen top Telugu actors being investigated in a massive drug racket busted earlier this month.

Bangladesh police today handed over to the FBI for testing blood and hair samples of militants who carried out the country's worst terror attack in which 22 people, mostly foreigners, were killed.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party has today taken over a big portion of Gardanibagh, the new site for protests in Patna, and is conducting a drive to collect "DNA samples" to send to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

DNA testing is taking a bite out of the Bigfoot legend. After scientists analysed more than 30 hair samples reportedly left behind by Bigfoot and similar mythical beasts like the Himalayan Yeti, they found all of them came from more mundane creatures like bears, wolves, cows and raccoons.

Mukul Chatterjee, the chief of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), has told NDTV that boxer Vijender Singh has missed three drug tests in the last one month. Mr Chatterjee today said that the last test on Vijender was conducted in July last year. Meanwhile, the Punjab Police, which alleged that Vijender bought and used heroin 12 times in the la...

The Punjab Police are reportedly preparing to move court to get samples of Vijender Singh's hair and blood, after the national anti-doping agency or NADA refused a Sports Ministry request last evening to test the star boxer for heroin, citing a technicality. The police allege that Vijender bought and used heroin 12 times in the last few months, but...

Punjab police have claimed Vijender had consumed drugs 12 times as per the testimony of boxer Ram Singh.

The Fatehgarh Sahib district police had recovered 26 kg heroin, worth Rs.130 crore in the international market, from the possession of Canada-based drugs dealer Anoop Singh Kahlon and had arrested him on Thursday. The drug haul was made from Kahlon's flat in Zirakpur, near Chandigarh and his car.

Vijender Singh, India's only Olympic medallist boxer, who has denied using drugs, was interrogated for over three hours this evening by the Punjab Police, and refused to share blood or hair samples for forensic examination. The boxer was interrogated by a team of Punjab Police officials in Panchkula, about 20 kilometres from state capital Chandigar...

Advertisements pinned on the walls of shopping malls in Uganda's capital promise young women a free ticket to a well-paying job in Malaysia as a nanny, maid or bartender. Instead many are forced to become "sex slaves" to pay off travel fees and other costs amounting to as much as $7,000. The traffickers brainwash their victims into believing they m...

Measuring the amount of melanin in a hair sample independently predicts an individual's risk for melanoma.

The Union Health Ministry has issued guidelines for the ethical use of "leftover, de-identified and anonymous" samples generated from a diagnostic or surgical procedure on patients for commercial use.

Hair and bone samples sent for DNA mitochondrial profiling by police have been confirmed to be of Shradha Walkar who was killed by her 28-year-old live-in partner Aaftab Amin Poonawala, a senior official said in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Researchers say that with DNA samples, they can predict the color of eyes, skin and hair.

The Hyderabad High Court has said excise officials cannot forcibly collect blood, nail and hair samples from actor Charmme Kaur, who is among a dozen top Telugu actors being investigated in a massive drug racket busted earlier this month.

Bangladesh police today handed over to the FBI for testing blood and hair samples of militants who carried out the country's worst terror attack in which 22 people, mostly foreigners, were killed.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party has today taken over a big portion of Gardanibagh, the new site for protests in Patna, and is conducting a drive to collect "DNA samples" to send to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

DNA testing is taking a bite out of the Bigfoot legend. After scientists analysed more than 30 hair samples reportedly left behind by Bigfoot and similar mythical beasts like the Himalayan Yeti, they found all of them came from more mundane creatures like bears, wolves, cows and raccoons.

Mukul Chatterjee, the chief of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), has told NDTV that boxer Vijender Singh has missed three drug tests in the last one month. Mr Chatterjee today said that the last test on Vijender was conducted in July last year. Meanwhile, the Punjab Police, which alleged that Vijender bought and used heroin 12 times in the la...

The Punjab Police are reportedly preparing to move court to get samples of Vijender Singh's hair and blood, after the national anti-doping agency or NADA refused a Sports Ministry request last evening to test the star boxer for heroin, citing a technicality. The police allege that Vijender bought and used heroin 12 times in the last few months, but...

Punjab police have claimed Vijender had consumed drugs 12 times as per the testimony of boxer Ram Singh.

The Fatehgarh Sahib district police had recovered 26 kg heroin, worth Rs.130 crore in the international market, from the possession of Canada-based drugs dealer Anoop Singh Kahlon and had arrested him on Thursday. The drug haul was made from Kahlon's flat in Zirakpur, near Chandigarh and his car.

Vijender Singh, India's only Olympic medallist boxer, who has denied using drugs, was interrogated for over three hours this evening by the Punjab Police, and refused to share blood or hair samples for forensic examination. The boxer was interrogated by a team of Punjab Police officials in Panchkula, about 20 kilometres from state capital Chandigar...

Advertisements pinned on the walls of shopping malls in Uganda's capital promise young women a free ticket to a well-paying job in Malaysia as a nanny, maid or bartender. Instead many are forced to become "sex slaves" to pay off travel fees and other costs amounting to as much as $7,000. The traffickers brainwash their victims into believing they m...

Measuring the amount of melanin in a hair sample independently predicts an individual's risk for melanoma.