DNA ‘Viking’ was a job description, not a matter of heredity, massive ancient DNA study shows sciencemag.org - Andrew Curry It was a Viking saga written in genes. In 2008, construction work on an isolated Estonian beach near the town of Salme uncovered the skeletons of …
Good HousekeepingTom Martin Two Sisters Took a DNA Test. It Revealed Everything They Knew About Their Family Was Wrong. Good Housekeeping - Rachael Rifkin The test results may have unraveled clues to a heartbreaking, decades-old kidnapping mystery. It all started out innocently enough. In 2017, Audrey …
Business InsiderGenetics Ancient tools and DNA discovered in a Tibetan cave shed unprecedented light on humans' most enigmatic ancestor, the Denisovans verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Aylin WoodwardForty years ago, a Tibetan monk wandered into the holy Baishiya Karst Cave and stumbled across a jawbone. The accidental discovery was the beginning of an anthropological mystery whose solution has shed...
GizmodoIce Age Ancient DNA From Preserved Cave Lions Reveals They Were a Unique Species verified_publisherGizmodo - George Dvorsky A genetic analysis of ice age cave lions shows this species to be distinct from modern lions, ending a long-standing mystery. What’s more, the new …
The GuardianFertility Baby God: how DNA testing uncovered a shocking web of fertility fraud verified_publisherThe Guardian - Adrian HortonQuincy Fortier was once Nevada’s physician of the year. As unspooled in a new documentary, he had a dark secret: dozens of children fraudulently fathered through his fertility clinic At 22, Cathy Holm...
Genes Neanderthal DNA might be a risk factor for severe coronavirus cases bgr.com - Chris Smith Not all of the people who test positive for the novel coronavirus will experience a bad case of COVID-19 requiring oxygen therapy or mechanical …
ScienceAlertChromosomes New Study of Neanderthal And Denisovan DNA Reveals a Surprising Link to Men Today verified_publisherScienceAlert - Mike McRae Decades of teasing apart Neanderthal DNA has produced an archive of ancient genes that spell out a history of love affairs between estranged branches …
Refinery29E. Jean Carroll Trump Doesn’t Want To Give A DNA Sample In Rape Lawsuit. Now The DOJ Is Involved. verified_publisherRefinery29 - Britni de la CretazDonald Trump has been accused of sexual assault by over 20 women, including writer E. Jean Carroll, who is suing the president for defamation after he denied the allegations. Now, in a surprising move,...
BustleRacism After Four Years of Unrelenting Racism, I Got A DNA Test. For My Dog. verified_publisherBustle - Shayla Lawson People on the street stopped to ask what we were, where we were from. A few months ago, during what I’m calling the fall of white supremacy, I got my …
Los Angeles TimesDNA The untold story of how the Golden State Killer was found: A covert operation and private DNA verified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Paige St. JohnThe dramatic arrest in 2018 of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was all the more astounding because of how detectives said they caught the elusive Golden State Killer — by harnessing genetic technology already...
TNWCell Biology Algorithm reveals some of us have DNA from a mystery ancestor verified_publisherTNW - Thomas MacaulayInterbreeding gets a bad rap these days, but early humans loved a bit of interspecies action. Genes from fossils show our ancestors had entanglements with both Neanderthals and an ancient group called...
Microbiome A tale of two cesspits: DNA reveals intestinal health in Medieval Europe and Middle East phys.org - University of Cambridge A new study published this week in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B demonstrates a first attempt at using the methods of …
ForbesDNA A New Way Of Making DNA Is About To Revolutionize The Biotech Industry Forbes - John CumbersHas the next biotech unicorn been minted? A partnership was just announced between two California firms, Codexis CDXS and Molecular Assemblies, focused on a radical new way of writing DNA. The partnership...
Tuberculosis DNA from a mummified bishop's lungs shows tuberculosis infected humans only recently massivesci.com - Amanda Rossillo Bishop Peder Winstrup died in what is now Sweden in 1679 CE, when tuberculosis (TB) was ravaging Europe. His body was placed in a cool, dry crypt, …
GEDmatch A Security Breach Exposed More Than One Million DNA Profiles On A Major Genealogy Database buzzfeednews.com - Peter Aldhous First GEDmatch, the DNA database that helped identify the Golden State Killer, was hacked. Then email addresses from its users were used in a …
BloombergChromosomes How a Third Cousin Could Give Away Your DNA Secrets verified_publisherBloomberg - Kristen V Brown Relatively simple tests that can analyze an individual’s DNA have proved a boon in the fields of medicine and criminal justice, not to mention …
ScienceAlertLeonardo Da Vinci Da Vinci's Drawings Contain a Surprising Mix of Bacteria, Fungi, And Human DNA verified_publisherScienceAlert - RAFI LETZTER Leonardo da Vinci is famous for his elaborate, nuanced artworks and advanced technological ideas. But new research has revealed another level of …
FirstpostDNA People with Neanderthal DNA run a higher risk of severe complications from COVID-19 - Health News , Firstpost Firstpost COVID-19 patients with a snippet of Neanderthal DNA that crossed into the human genome some 60,000 years ago run a higher risk of severe …
Refinery29Dishwashing Just Wondering: Can A Dishwasher Remove DNA From A Hammer? verified_publisherRefinery29 - Hannah RimmSpoiler Alert: Heavy spoilers ahead for the entire season of The Undoing. It's unfortunate but, after watching the recent finale of Sky Atlantic/HBO's The Undoing, my Google search history officially like...
SYFY WIREDNA Can you really pull a "Jurassic Park" and extract DNA from bugs frozen in amber? verified_publisherSYFY WIRE - Elizabeth Rayne So we may never actually extract the blood of a mosquito that bit a dinosaur 100 million years ago and use it to resurrect dinosaurs that take over …
DNA A newly discovered protein repairs DNA phys.org - University of Seville Researchers from the University of Seville, in collaboration with colleagues from the Universities of Murcia and Marburg (Germany) have identified a …
Bronze Age Ancient DNA reveals a Bronze Age bias for male horses sciencemag.org - Jaime Chambers Myths about horses and gender abound. Many equestrians, for example, say they prefer “predictable” geldings over “moody” mares, despite no real …
Refinery29Dishwashing Just Wondering: Can A Dishwasher Remove DNA From A Hammer? verified_publisherRefinery29 - Hannah RimmSpoiler Alert: Heavy spoilers ahead for the entire season of The Undoing. It's unfortunate but, after watching the recent finale of HBO's The Undoing, my Google search history officially looks like that...
Giant Pandas Why It Takes a DNA Test to Determine a Panda Cub's Sex smithsonianmag.com - Beth Py-Lieberman This morning via YouTube, the National Zoo announced the six-week-old giant panda cub is a male. "It's another boy," announced the Zoo's panda …