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Trump administration wants to collect DNA from detained immigrants
The Trump administration plans to vastly expand a program to collect DNA information from migrants in detention and enter it ...
We’re different. We’re the same. Genomic databases require diversity to illuminate human commonalities and disparities
I edited this month’s Critic at Large essay, a piece from Jackson Laboratory Scientific Director Charles Lee on the need to inject large-scale genomic ...
‘Rapid DNA’ testing used to identify victims of California dive boat fire
As the clock keeps ticking away following a catastrophic dive boat fire in California ..., friends and family members of those thought ...
DNA sequencing technique spots wheat pathogens, and diseases-fighting microbes to stop them
Plant diseases, especially those caused by fungal pathogens, jeopardize global crop biosecurity and preventing them requires rapid detection and identification ...
How ‘alien genetics’ would change our understanding of life, biology and evolution
While we await our first contact with alien life, scientists investigate possible scenarios for extraterrestrial biology ...
Viewpoint: Why science hasn’t given us a cure for cancer: We’re still ‘trying to understand it’
Each permutation of cancer requires a different approach, therapy, or method of management ...
‘Unconventional’ Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, known for revolutionizing DNA research, has died
Kary Mullis, who shared a Nobel Prize in chemistry for devising a technique vital in DNA research and technology, and ...
How the quest to bake a better banana bread helps us understand GMOs
A simple analogy can help explain how genetic modification works ...
Alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein had a dream: He wanted to ‘seed the human race with his DNA’
Jeffrey E. Epstein, the wealthy financier who is accused of sex trafficking, had an unusual dream: He hoped to seed ...
DNA testing of ancient Gibraltar Neanderthal remains reveals sex, relationship with other European Neanderthals
Two skulls from Gibraltar were among the first Neanderthal remains ever found, and have since become some of the best-studied ...
Horizontal gene transfer: The tricky part of evolution never imagined by Charles Darwin
Biologists have long recognized that the boundaries of one species may blur into another—by the process of hybridism, for instance ...
Podcast: Jurassic Park paleontologist Jack Horner on resurrecting extinct species with genetic engineering
Although dinosaurs are probably never coming back, the scenes from Jurassic Park are an extrapolation of actual research being performed ...
AI discovers new autism-linked mutations in ‘junk’ DNA
Many mutations in DNA that contribute to disease are not in actual genes but instead lie in the 99% of ...
DNA for the greater good: Should the police have access to consumer DNA databases?
There is an urgent need for international guidelines and policies ...
DNA found in 10,000-year-old ‘chewing gum’ sheds light on ancient Sweden
In the 1990s, archaeologists recovered a few chewed-up lumps of birch bark pitch, some of which still held fingerprints and ...
Why this lesser-known CRISPR sibling could be a key tool in fight against drug-resistant bacteria, viruses and parasites
A “highly specific and programmable” CRISPR tool could become one of our main tools for fighting pathogens ...
Video: What does it mean to ‘turn on’ a gene?
In the murky darkness, blue and green blobs are dancing. Sometimes they keep decorous distances from each other, but other ...
Video: Even if you’ve never taken a DNA test ‘your genetic privacy might already be compromised’
The rise of direct-to-consumer DNA tests comes with a host of thorny problems, including how to interpret the data and major questions about genetic privacy ...
‘The broken promise of anonymity’? Bioethicist’s call to guard identity of sperm and egg donors is misguided
Dr. Pennings’ opinion fails to capture the complexity of donation ...
Stonehenge mystery solved! DNA analysis tells us where builders came from
The ancestors of the people who built Stonehenge travelled west across the Mediterranean before reaching Britain, a study has shown ...
Epigenetics could alter the way we breed crops for drought and climate change
New techniques allow researchers to change the way crops behave and handle adverse conditions--without actually altering the plants' underlying DNA ...
Exploring the havoc that can be unleashed by consumer ancestry tests
On what fraction of a human genome do the consumer DNA companies base these deductions that can shatter lives? ...
Meet 5 RNA ‘movers and shakers’ including one that may protect against Alzheimer’s
RNAs, composed of strings of genetic letters called nucleotides, are best known for ferrying instructions from the genes in our ...
Glimpse into enslaved woman’s life offered by DNA found in clay pipe at Maryland plantation
Clay pipes used for smoking were so common in the 1700s and 1800s that it’s not very remarkable to find ...
We face a host of new ethical questions including: Who actually owns your DNA?
DNA is one of the greatest medical discoveries ever. Using the tools of contemporary genetics, physicians and scientists can explore ...
Why Microsoft wants to design a system that stores data in DNA
DNA is emerging as an ultra-compact way of storing it all, and now researchers supported by Microsoft have created the first ...
How ‘genetic libraries’ of animal DNA can help us better understand ourselves
Of more than 500 species of sharks in the world’s oceans, scientists have only sequenced a handful of genomes – ...
