In 1998 the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group published a phylogeny of flowering plants based on an analysis of DNA sequences from most families of flowering plants.

A 1998 DNA study showed a match between the Jefferson male line and a male descendant of Sally Hemings.

In 1998, a study conducted by Carole Meredith's research group in the Department of Viticulture and Enology at University of California, Davis used DNA typing and extensive grape reference material from the viticultural research station in Montpellier, France to conclude that Syrah was the offspring of the grape varieties Dureza ( father ) and Mondeuse Blanche ( mother ).

* In 1998, Dr. Richard J. Schmidt was convicted of attempted second-degree murder when it was shown that there was a link between the viral DNA of the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) he had been accused of injecting in his girlfriend and viral DNA from one of his patients with AIDS.

The foal's DNA comes from a fetal cell culture first established in 1998 at the University of Idaho.

Clark was a director and investor in biotechnology company DNA Sciences, founded in 1998, which went bankrupt and was acquired by Genaissance Pharmaceuticals Inc. in 2003.

Following renewed historic analysis and a 1998 DNA study that found a match between the Jefferson male line and a descendant of her last son, Eston Hemings, a consensus among historians supports that the widower Jefferson fathered her son Eston Hemings and likely all her children.

A consensus began to emerge after the results of a DNA analysis in 1998, which showed no match between the Carr male line, proposed for more than 150 years as the father ( s ), and the one Hemings descendant tested.

Since 1998 and the DNA study, many historians have accepted that the widower Jefferson had an intimate relationship with Hemings, and fathered six children with her, four of whom survived to adulthood.

" Beverley and Anna's great-grandson John Weeks Jefferson was the Eston Hemings descendant whose DNA was tested in 1998 ; it matched the Y-chromosome of the Thomas Jefferson male line.

( 1998 ) " Mitochondrial DNA analysis of northwest African populations reveals genetic exchanges with European, near-eastern, and sub-Saharan populations ".

* Soltis, P. S., Soltis, D. E., and Doyle, J. J. ( 1998 ) Molecular Systematics of Plants II: DNA Sequencing.

His claim was disproven in 1998 when DNA tests showed that his grandfather, Karl Wilhelm Naundorff, was not Louis XVII of France.

DNA-DNA hybridization placed the Olive Warbler as an early branch of the finch clade ( which included the finches, cardinals and Hawaiian honeycreepers ) and the New World sparrow clade ( which includes the tanagers, icterids and New world warblers ), and a 1998 study of mitochondrial DNA confirmed its status as being far removed from the New world warblers.

The three scientists determined the existence of the species by analysing the morphology and mitochondrial DNA of nine individuals — eight caught by a Japanese research vessel in the late 1970s in the Indo-Pacific and a further specimen collected in 1998 from Tsunoshima island in the Sea of Japan.

From 1995 until 1998, the DNA was a popular late-night destination, featuring unpublicized shows by such top pop musicians as Prince and Metallica, and weekend dance parties headlined by retro bands Grooveline and the M-80s.

Madariaga endeavored to resolve Pablo's paternity through DNA testing, but Pablo has, as of 1998, declined to cooperate.

In 1998, Horizon won a BAFTA for Best Drama, " Life Story " ( about the elucidation of the structure of DNA ), another in 1996 for Best Documentary, " Fermat's Last Theorem " ( which also won a Prix Italia ) and another in 2001 for Best Factual Series or Strand.

* 1998 – Voice of animated character " Sidney " ( 9 episodes ) for children's program " Jingaroo " by DNA Productions

In 1998, Chiron's nucleic acid testing ( NAT ) blood-testing business was launched in cooperation with Gen-Probe, followed a year later by the launch of the Procleix system, which detects viral RNA and DNA in donated blood and plasma during the very early stages of infection, when those infectious agents are present but cannot be detected by immunodiagnostic tests.

He had been buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns from 1984 to 1998 as the Unknown Service Member from the Vietnam War, before positive identification was obtained ` through DNA evidence.

Over the years, its sequential descendant organizations have been the Defense Atomic Support Agency ( DASA ) from 1959 to 1971, the Defense Nuclear Agency ( DNA ) from 1971 to 1996, and the Defense Special Weapons Agency ( DSWA ) from 1996 to 1998.

In 1994, he opened a record store called DNA Records, and in 1998, founded his own label, Turbo Recordings, which has gone on to release music from acts like Proxy, ZZT, Boys Noize, Gesaffelstein and Azari & III.

* 1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.

It is speculated by some intelligence agencies that North Korea is developing an ICBM ; two tests of somewhat different developmental missiles in 1998 and 2006 were not fully successful.

* 1998 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.

* 1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.

* 1998 – India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11.

Despite the Sunshine Policy and efforts at reconciliation, the progress was complicated by North Korean missile tests in 1993, 1998, 2006 and 2009., relationships between North and South Korea were very tense ; North Korea had been reported to have deployed missiles, ended its former agreements with South Korea, and threatened South Korea and the United States not to interfere with a satellite launch it had planned.

In 1998, following the country's nuclear tests ( See Chagai-I and Chagai-II ), Mehmood was honored and awarded the civilian decoration, the Sitara-e-Imtiaz, in a colourful ceremony by the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif.

After the test, India continued expanding its nuclear power capacity and developing its nuclear physics programme, but made no further nuclear tests until 1998.

He played a pivotal organizational, technical and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.

In May 1998, India conducted five underground nuclear tests in Pokhran desert in Rajasthan.

This eased the tension created by the 1998 nuclear tests, not only within the two nations but also in South Asia and the rest of the world.

* Chagai-II: Two days later, on 30 May 1998, Pakistan detonated a 6th nuclear device completing its own series of underground tests with this being the last test the two nations have carried out to date.

" Although a Human Effects Advisory Panel was established in 1998 to provide independent assessment on human effects, data, and models for the use of ' non-lethal weapons ' on the general population, the TECOM Technology Symposium in 1997 concluded on non-lethal weapons: " Determining the target effects on personnel is the greatest challenge to the testing community ," primarily because " the potential of injury and death severely limits human tests.

In 1998, Benjamin and Gannon researched the audibility of jitter using listening tests ( Dunn 2003: 34 ).

DVB-T has repeatedly been tested from RTÉ Network Limited's Three Rock Mountain transmitter, with relatively long tests in 1998 and 2001, and shorter tests in 2004, with a single multiplex carrying the four Irish analogue terrestrial channels, and Tara Television while it was in existence, on both UHF ( channel 26 ) and VHF ( channel D ).

Since then, the rate has fallen dramatically with 0. 15 per 1000 live births reported in 1998, though this decline is partially accounted for because some fetuses are aborted when tests show signs of spina bifida ( see Pregnancy screening above ).

According to Livingston, " In 1998 the National Commission for Human Rights issued a report charging gross irregularities and general negligence in state investigations, including the misidentification of corpses, failure to obtain expert tests on forensic evidence, failure to conduct autopsies or obtain semen analysis ... failure to file written reports, incompetence in keeping records of the rising tide of women murders.

* In 1998, the Rover 100 received a one-star Adult Occupant Rating in EuroNCAP crash tests ; sales promptly collapsed and the 18-year-old design was quickly scrapped.

Sky's digital service was officially launched on 1 October 1998 under the name Sky Digital, although small-scale tests were carried out before then.

From the first nuclear test in 1945 until tests by Pakistan in 1998, there was never a period of more than 22 months with no nuclear testing.

June 1998 to October 2006 was the longest period since 1945 with no acknowledged nuclear tests.

In 1998, India carried out nuclear tests and a few days later, Pakistan responded by more nuclear tests giving both countries nuclear deterrence capability, although India had exploded three hydrogen bombs which Pakistan lacks.