DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest
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The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for
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Swedes searching for their Colombian mothers forty years after their adoptions – government acknowledges processes were plagued with irregularities, from theft of babies to falsified documents
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Scholars on a quixotic quest to identify Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA achieve a milestone
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Sperm may pass traits via RNA, influenced by the father's life
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Sperm from donor with cancer-causing gene at Denmark's European Sperm Bank was used to conceive almost 200 children across Europe
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
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Editing nature to fix mistakes
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Nobel Prize winner, Svante Pääbo, is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage, and the possibility of extracting the genome of the Flores hobbit
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New DNA map of the pistachio could create better varieties
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The DNA of the late American composer Alvin Lucier continues to compose music
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23andMe sells its most valuable asset to biotech company Regeneron, which promises to keep your DNA private
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Generative AI tool marks a milestone in biology - Evo 2 can predict the form and function of proteins in the DNA of all domains of life
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Larry Ellison wants to put all US data in one big AI system
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Roman with Scandinavian ancestry lived in Britain between AD100 and AD300, long before the Anglo-Saxons or Vikings arrived research shows
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DNA shows Pompeii’s dead aren’t who we thought they were
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You don't descend from all your ancestors
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High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields a Denisovan fossil
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Deriving mammalian DNA methylation predictors for maximum life span, gestation time and age at sexual maturity
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Star botanist likely made up data about nutritional supplements, new probe finds
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How Finding Your Roots turns DNA research into essential TV
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Memories are made by breaking DNA — and fixing it (in mice)
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Analysis of Ludwig van Beethoven’s DNA revealed that he had a low genetic predisposition for musical ability
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Canadian pet DNA company sends back dog breed results from human sample a second time
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Colorado Bureau of Investigation finds DNA scientist manipulated data in hundreds of cases over decades
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Two waves of mass death hit prehistoric Denmark, with farmers wiping out hunter-gatherers and pastoralists later wiping out the farmers, genetic study reveals
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DNA from stone age chewing gum sheds light on diet and disease in Scandinavia's ancient hunter-gatherers
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Archaeologists reveal life stories of hundreds of people from medieval Cambridge
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The genetic heritage of the Denisovans may have left its mark on our mental health
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Americas’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests
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‘Something happened, somehow something got mixed up’: the at-home DNA test that changed two families for ever
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Hit in DNA database exonerates man forty-seven years after wrongful rape conviction
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Scientists release the first complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
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Ludwig von Beethoven’s genome sheds light on chronic health problems and cause of death
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Researchers engineer bacteria that can detect tumor DNA (in mice)
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Bioengineers at Arizona State University leveraging a Lego robotics kit created an affordable yet powerful gradient mixer to purify self-assembling nanostructures
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Eating foods consumed at higher temperatures may increase cancer risk due to heat-damaged DNA
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Sucralose breaks up DNA
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Is there a way to do a DNA test anonymously?
Not sure if this is the right spot, but the topic says it. I'd like to get my DNA checked out, but I don't want it connected to my name and all that. Is this actually possible? Am I overreacting?...
Not sure if this is the right spot, but the topic says it. I'd like to get my DNA checked out, but I don't want it connected to my name and all that. Is this actually possible? Am I overreacting?
I'm not even sure what I look to gain from the testing, but I figured I'd look into it. If I can do it safely and privately, I'm game. If not, no loss.
Any thoughts?
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First report of rare cat discovered on Mt. Everest
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Navigating the ethics of ancient human DNA research
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How donkeys changed the course of human history
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Native Americans—and their genes—traveled back to Siberia, new genomes reveal
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Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like two million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland
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Logic gates made of DNA beat me at tic-tac-toe
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The CIA just invested in woolly mammoth resurrection technology
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Over twenty-five years ago Kári Stefánsson began examining the DNA of Iceland's inhabitants in search of the genetic causes of illness
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Meteorites could have brought all five genetic 'letters' of DNA to early Earth
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Covid testing company "selling customers' DNA"
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San Francisco district attorney claims California crime labs are using DNA from sexual assault survivors to investigate unrelated crimes
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