A Nonprofit Wants Your DNA Data to Solve Crimes
The terms of service for GEDmatch and FamilyTreeDNA outline their policies for use by law enforcement. But for many ...
Tag: DNA
How Old Are You, Really? New Tests Want to Tell You
age is just A number - a number that you can change. At least that's the hype behind Tally ...
How Supergenes Beat the Odds—and Fuel Evolution
Supergenes can also complicate the mating process. In some species, hypergenes have created a breeding system that actually has ...
How to Detect a Man-Made Biothreat
But even with the improved accuracy of the platforms, it's hard to know whether they'll be able to detect ...
The Era of Fast, Cheap Genome Sequencing Is Here
Comparing these genomes to those of people without schizophrenia allowed researchers to discover multiple genes that have profound effects ...
What If Cells Kept Receipts of Their Gene Expression?
They added chemicals that triggered the first gene (corresponding to barcode A) for 24 hours, and then added chemicals ...
Genetic Screening Now Lets Parents Pick the Healthiest Embryos
at 18 months Aged Aurea Yenmai Smigrodzki is as curious as any other toddler. She loves peanut butter, sand, ...
What the DNA of Ancient Humans Reveals About Pandemics
After Hunt's unusual flight home, Shanidar Z arrived safely at Cambridge University for a digital scan, which will eventually ...
A New Kind of Genome Editing Is Here to Fine-Tune DNA
"We didn't see any signs that their alcohol consumption would return to baseline levels, so we think this epigenetic ...
