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Death Risk Calculator Predicts Your Death Risk Rankings

If you are curious as to what your risks are of dying next year or from a certain disease, well there is now a website for you. Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh has developed a website that will give you information on your death risk rankings based on the information you select to do the comparison on. Called the death calculator, the program behind the website gives you the odds of you dying within a certain period or what the death risk percentage is of you dying of a certain cause.

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Guiding genetic genealogy labs toward improved accuracy

Anyone who has watched crime dramas on TV knows that forensic scientists can use DNA “profiling” to identify people from evidence gathered at a crime scene, establish a paternity link or help free an innocent person who has been wrongly jailed.

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New England Historic Genealogical Society Reveals Obama, Bush Relatives

The New England Historic Genealogical Society says there are distant family links between Senator Barack Obama and actor Brad Pitt. According to the New England Historic Genealogical Society Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, can call six U.S. presidents, including George W. Bush, his cousins.

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