The central struggle was between the publicly funded international Human Genome Project, led by Francis Collins, a distinguished scientist and devout Christian, which pursued a slow-and-steady approach to sequencing until Celera, a private company led by Craig Venter, appeared on the scene and boldly claimed that its revolutionary new technique, whole-genome shot-gun sequencing, could do the job in less than half the time.
And during it the police account - that Mark Duggan was holding a gun when shot - was questioned.
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He had fled from officers into a dead-end street, where police found him apparently with a gun-shot wound in the head.
In 2008, a 74-year-old Kentucky woman with Alzheimer's shot her daughter-in-law with a gun hidden in the home.
Depending on the source, there are 800, 000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses each year where law-abiding gun owners deter criminals without firing a shot (let alone killing the bad guy).
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She said she escaped and shot him in self-defence using a gun he kept on a shelf.
The 59-year-old was shot with a stun gun on 6 March in Epworth, a report by Humberside Police Authority revealed.
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The mass shooting - which ended when Lanza shot himself - shocked the United States and revived debate over how to curb gun violence.
Single-shot rifles that require you to physically reload the gun may not do people a lot of good when they are facing multiple criminals or when their first shot misses or fails to stop an attacker.
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In Indianapolis, police said a 54-year-old man was injured when he accidentally shot himself while leaving a gun show.
Hearing noises and gripped with fear that someone had broken into his home, Pistorius said he grabbed his gun, yelled for the intruder to leave and shot through the toilet-room door before realizing the person inside might have been Steenkamp.
Ward was already on parole for a previous gun violation -- unlawful use of a firearm -- when he shot Pendleton, McCarthy said.
Emory L. Cozee was loading his .45 caliber semi-automatic when he shot himself in the hand as he was leaving the Indy 1500 Gun and Knife show at the state fairgrounds, state police said.
The gun safety issue has intensified after a 6-year-old girl was recently shot and killed by a classmate in Michigan.
Dr Simon Poole was testifying in the retrial of Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, who denies supplying an illegal gun to Mr Duggan the day he was shot.
In a Twitter post, a member of Team Stunters -- a motorcycle stunt team -- reported the footage was shot during a "practice session for upcoming shows, " The Smoking Gun reported.
Bell was African-American, leaving his bachelor party and shot by undercover NYPD officers who mistakenly believed he had a gun.
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