Current DNA tests usually do not check whole sequences of genes. Typically, companies such as 23andMe, GEDmatch or Ancestry look…
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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 This is an outdated question.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…
There is no Nobel Prize in biology – but biologists are recognized almost every year by awards in the categories…
Opioid epidemic in the USA took 68,000 lives in 2018. Scientists are looking into the genetics of people addicted to…
After recent announcement of genetically engineered babies, CRISPR took molecular biology by storm – now its popularity is flooding popular…