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‘Google of sorts’: DNA database harnesses power of genome sequences

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In 2015, scientists discovered a pig in China that would set off a frantic, worldwide search. The pig carried bacteria ...
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How long can bacteria live? 500-year experiment could provide answers

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In the year 2514, some future scientist will arrive at the University of Edinburgh (assuming the university still exists), open ...
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From salt to hand sanitizer, corn is in everything. What would life without it look like?

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When Christine Robinson was first diagnosed with a corn allergy 17 years ago, she remembers thinking, “No more popcorn, no ...
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DNA test for your dog? Here’s what your vet thinks about it

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[T]he direct-to-dog-owner market has become bigger and more crowded: Embark, DNA My Dog, and Paw Print Genetics are just a few ...
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When a DNA test uncovers an ugly family secret

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As DNA-testing companies sell millions of kits, they’ve started to rearrange families. The tests have reunited long-lost cousins and helped adoptees find their ...
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Personal DNA tests challenged for perpetuating ‘false notions’ of ethnic cultures and race

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Genetic-ancestry tests are having a moment. Look no further than Spotify: [Last month], the music-streaming service—as in, the service used ...
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Can a DNA test prove you are black? This man is suing the government to find out

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In 2014, Ralph Taylor applied to have his insurance company in Washington State certified as a “disadvantaged business enterprise.” The DBE ...
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Living with hemophilia: When patients with genetic disorders don’t want to be cured

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Jeff Johnson is 40 years old, and for all 40 of those years, he has been living with hemophilia. The ...
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When a DNA test says you aren’t exactly who you think you are

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[Catherine] St Clair thought she was inquiring about a technical glitch. Her brother—the brother who along with three other siblings ...
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‘War of words’ over what to call lab-grown meat exposes divide in America’s food culture

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On [July 12th], in a small but packed auditorium, the FDA convened a public meeting about lab-grown meat—but you wouldn’t ...
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Fueling CRISPR: The nonprofit dedicated to sharing ‘bits of useful DNA’

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When Feng Zhang was a graduate student in the early 2000s, he helped make a groundbreaking discovery: Light-sensitive proteins from ...
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Genetically engineered monkeys? China is using them for autism research

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[MIT genetics researcher Guoping] Feng now travels to China several times a year, because there, he can pursue research he ...
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CRISPR innovator Feng Zhang on treating human diseases: ‘We’re still a ways from that’

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[Biologist Feng Zhang] has already made two discoveries tipped to win Nobel Prizes. The big one, the one that shot ...
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Small genealogy website GEDmatch ‘never expected’ its criminal-catching use

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Ever since investigators revealed that a genealogy website led police to arrest a man as California’s notorious Golden State Killer, interest ...
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The future of ‘genetic genealogy’ crime solving

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Just three weeks ago, law enforcement in California announced the arrest of the Golden State Killer using DNA. … On ...
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Are we done bleeding horseshoe crabs for pharmaceutical use?

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Contemporary humans do not deliberately kill the horseshoe crabs—as did previous centuries of farmers catching them for fertilizer or fishermen ...
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Our bodies churn out trillions of mutations each day—why aren’t we ‘walking bags of cancer’?

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As you read this article, the cells in your body are dividing and the DNA in them is being copied, ...
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All yeast strains likely descended from common ancestor in China

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When scientists in France set out to sequence 1,000 yeast genomes, they looked at strains from all the places you ...
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What the humble fruit fly has taught us about human genetics

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I came to First in Fly, a new book about fruit-fly research, with perhaps some special interest. In fact, a popular ...
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‘White-hat hacker’ Columbia University geneticist Yaniv Erlich maps his 13-million-person family tree

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Yaniv Erlich has been a white-hat hacker and a geneticist at Columbia University, and now he works for a genealogy company. This unusual ...
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Ginkgo Bioworks’ mission to make GMOs fun, cool and socially conscious

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Out on an old Navy dry dock, a biotech company called Ginkgo Bioworks is growing genetically modified organisms by the ...
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Uptown rats? Rodents in New York City have genetically adapted to different neighborhoods

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As a whole, Manhattan’s rats are genetically most similar to those from Western Europe, especially Great Britain and France. They ...
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Proof the yeti exists? DNA analysis shows bone ‘samples’ came from bears

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In the fall of 2013, Charlotte Lindqvist got a call from a film company making an Animal Planet documentary about ...
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Dolly the sheep revisited: Early health fears about clones ‘greatly exaggerated’

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[L]ast year, Kevin Sinclair, a developmental biologist at the University of Nottingham, published a paper about several clones including Dolly’s four “sisters,” who ...
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Video: CRISPR gene editing in real time

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[Researcher Osamu] Nureki’s paper was published in Nature Communications Friday, and by early morning, the video that astonished the room in [a CRISPR ...
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DNA profiles of 500,000 people put online by UK Biobank in massive research effort

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U.K. Biobank [recruited] 500,000 volunteers for a massive study on the origins of disease. In addition to collecting blood and urine, ...
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Unapproved stem cell therapy leaves elderly women blind

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[E]ye doctors based primarily at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami had published a widely covered report describing three eerily similar cases: ...
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Genetically engineered natural insecticides? RNAi crops with built-in protection hit the market

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DvSnf7 dsRNA is an unusual insecticide. You don’t spray it on crops. Instead, you encode instructions for manufacturing it in ...
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