Publications converged on a few common points: Two institutional reports are regarded as the most important for the whole field:…
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Over 6 million people in the USA have given their genetic data to private companies offering ancestry tests. Many of…
The study focused on the mean sentiment of tweets. A sentiment approximates emotional weight of text – typically from -1…
Current DNA tests usually do not check whole sequences of genes. Typically, companies such as 23andMe, GEDmatch or Ancestry look…
In 2017, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a project directly involved in genetic engineering, with special focus on…
Is there a gay gene? This is an outdated question. Genetics – except for a few rare diseases – ditched…
Dealings with Sanger (and I have collaborated for nearly ten years) have recently turned very disappointing, hurtful and may even…
A new preprint at Biorxiv reports a comparison between DNA testing results from companies 23andMe, AncestryDNA, and Gencove. In February…
CODIS database, initially created to solve violent crimes by FBI, will be extended to all 40,000 immigrants currently held in…
2019 medical Nobel Prize was awarded for research on oxygen-related gene networks. Gregg Semenza, Peter Ratcliffe, William Kaelin elucidated details…