Editor’s note: the following is a plea by Louis Zaharias, the father of missing Christoper and Lisa Mae Zaharias, published in its entirety. The two were kidnapped by their mother, Susan Elizabeth Gammill Zaharias, on November 20, 1987, from their home in Mission Viejo, California. Susan Zaharias is wanted for felony Child Concealment, with a mandatory bond of … [Read more...] about Father of kidnapped Zaharias children pleads for location of Christopher and Lisa Mae
Archives for June 2016
Scientists find clue to why Mitochondrial DNA comes only from Mom
Scientists have found a clue to why one type of DNA is passed down to children by their mothers — but not their fathers. DNA inside energy-producing organelles called mitochondria is destroyed in a dad’s sperm shortly after it fertilizes an egg, researchers report online June 23 inScience. A protein called CPS-6 cuts apart the mitochondrial DNA in the male sperm so that the … [Read more...] about Scientists find clue to why Mitochondrial DNA comes only from Mom
Darwin Letter Recovered: FBI Returns 1875 Correspondence to Smithsonian Archives
A handwritten letter by Charles Darwin that was stolen from the Smithsonian Institution Archives more than three decades ago was recovered by FBI special agents and returned last week to the care of the Smithsonian. The letter, written in 1875 by the British naturalist and geologist best known for his theory of evolution, was stolen in the mid-1970s from a collection of … [Read more...] about Darwin Letter Recovered: FBI Returns 1875 Correspondence to Smithsonian Archives
