States Are Toughening Up on Genetic Privacy
If you’ve ever spit into a plastic tube or swabbed your cheek and mailed your saliva away to learn about your ancestry or health risks, you might have…
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What makes us human? The answer may be found in overlooked DNA
Our DNA is very similar to that of the chimpanzee, which in evolutionary terms is our closest living relative. Stem cell researchers at Lund University in…
What Did Egyptian Mummies Look Like in Real Life? Researchers Use DNA Data to Reconstruct Their…
Egypt is famous for its gargantuan pyramids and the ancient mummies that are buried there. The ancient process of mummification to preserve a body has long…
What Did Mummies Look Like in Real Life? Researchers Use DNA Data to Find Out
Egypt is famous for its gargantuan pyramids and the ancient mummies that are buried there. The ancient process of mummification to preserve a body has long…
The Complex Truth About ‘Junk DNA’
Imagine the human genome as a string stretching out for the length of a football field, with all the genes that encode proteins clustered at the end near…
First machine-learning approach to forensic DNA analysis
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As the field of forensics…
Reducing the computational power required to analyze DNA
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An approach that reduces the…
Potential role of ‘junk DNA’ sequence in aging, cancer
The human body is essentially made up of trillions of living cells. It ages as its cells age, which happens when those cells eventually stop replicating and…
DNA test kits for ancestry: how they work and how to choose the right one for you
Who are you? Where are you from? How we identify ourselves is at the core of what it means to be human, and the chance to get easy, quick and affordable…
Las Vegas police solve an old murder case using record-low volume of DNA
Las Vegas police appear to have smashed a record while using ancestry to find cold case suspects. BBC News reports that Vegas law enforcement claims to have…