The station house officer (SHO) of Makhi said both the families have criminal records and that the girl hadn’t mentioned Sengar’s name in the FIR. Date No.A few months ago it had become the practice to crown both a white and a black winner. which supported Myriad denies that gene patents impede the flow of information In a statement BIO President and CEO James Greenwood notes that Judge Sweet’s decision "explicitly excluded" the ACLU-PUBPAT argument that gene patents harm research and medicine Robert Cook-Deegan an ethicist historian and expert on gene patenting at Duke University in Durham North Carolina says that the New York ruling on the BRCA patents is a "bombshell" It could undercut certain gene patents that seek to claim DNA sequences themselves as an invention rather than as part of a process He adds however that "it will take a while to figure out what it means" He notes that the judge’s decision directly attacks part of the subtle legal reasoning behind such patents—the notion that intellectual property attaches only to "isolated" DNA sequence which is a human invention and not to the DNA in genes that’s considered a product of nature (even though the sequences are identical) " I don’t think this decision is necessarily going to become a dagger through the heart" of inventions that claim DNA sequences as part of a multi-component diagnostic test said Cook-Deegan although it seems likely to limit the scope of future claims Chennai/Coimbatore:AIADMK Puratchi Thalaivi Amma faction leader O Panneerselvam on Thursdaysaid he is yet to hear from the Amma camp over the merger of the two even as he accused the EK Palaniswamy-led Tamil Nadu government of corruption File image of O Panneerselvam PTI His statement comes in the wake of heightened expectations of unification of the ruling party with the AIADMK (Amma) giving indications in this regard "We have not received any official information from their camp They are themselves just making some comments (on merger)" Panneerselvam leader of the AIADMK’s Puratchi Thalaivi Amma faction told reporters at Chennai airport Asked if there were any prospects of the merger he said "I have already conveyed our decision" apparently referring to his side’s main demand of keeping AIADMK chief VK Sasikala and her family members out of the party as pre-conditions for talks He had on 11 June disbanded a seven-member panel formed by his faction to hold merger talks with the Amma camp virtually bringing down the curtains on unification talks The former chief minister had then said he was being "forced" to come up with the announcement as he had been "tolerating" all kinds of "irresponsible statements" from the rival camp People from all walks of life especially women students and the youth were opposed to the idea of the merger he had said Later speaking to reporters at Coimbatore Panneerselvam alleged there was "corruption at all levels" under the present government "This is a betrayal to MGR (party founder MG Ramachandran) and Amma (J Jayalalithaa)" he added Panneerselvam said there was some "development" in the rival faction after the arrival of TTV Dhinakaran the AIADMK Amma deputy general secretary which is being "closely monitored" "We are closely monitoring the development of friction in the other faction between chief minister Palaniswamy and Dhinakaran" he said "Whatsoever the majority of the workers in AIADMK are with us as we followed the path of founder MG Ramachandran and former chief minister Jayalalithaa" he said Palaniswamy had said last month that he believed the warring AIADMK factions headed by him and his predecessor Panneerselvam would unite The camp’s sidelined Dhinakaran had also indicated that he himself might take up efforts for the merger if it did not happen by August On 1 August finance minister D Jayakumar had claimed that parleys on merger were "happening at various levels" and insisted that the "door for talks" were not closed Dhinakaran earlier boycotted by a section of the cabinet including chief minister Palaniswamy had given a 4 August deadline for the merger saying he himself will initiate the process if it did not take off by then which was supported by the Jammu Bar Association," The most reasonable solution Stiglitz sees is a write-off of Greeces debt, The Russian pulled the Indian down for a four-point move,Investigators concluded that no charges would have been filed against Brown had he survived the encounter, With genetics taking a back seat in humans, But new research, 2014 Write to Maya Rhodan at maya.