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How ‘self-limiting’ mosquitoes can help eradicate malaria
From Wired Next month, in a laboratory an hour outside of London, scientists will begin stitching bits of DNA together and inserting them into hundreds of tiny, cucumber-shaped insect eggs. It’s the first step toward engineering a new kind of…
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US: Medicare now covers gene sequencing for patients with advanced cancer
By Mallory Locklear, From engadget DNA sequencing tests help doctors find the best treatment option. Patients with advanced cancer will soon have access to more personalized treatment plans because Medicare will now cover genetic tests that sequence tumor cell DNA…
Caribbean tribe believed extinct is right here among us
By ROBBY BERMAN From Big Think When Columbus arrived, the Caribbean islands were populated by people known now as the “Taino.” Most likely they were descendants of the Arawaks of South America, and Taino was actually just their language —…
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The first modern Brits had ‘dark to black’ skin, new DNA analysis reveals
By Tom Powell, Evening Standard From Business Insider UK The first modern Brit had “dark to black” skin. Facial reconstruction of Britain’s oldest complete skeleton — known as Cheddar Man — was documented for Channel 4, “The First Brit: Secrets…
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Geneticists reconstruct the DNA of a slave born into a Dutch colony in the Caribbean who escaped to Iceland –
By CHEYENNE MACDONALD From DAILY MAIL UK – even though he died 200 years ago and his body has been lost Researchers reconstructed the maternal genome of escaped slave Hans Jonatan He was born in the late 1700s on the…
DNA is not an infallible test – everything depends on the researcher
From Covert Intelligence LLC SAN JUAN, PR – January 2018 – Since the DNA was established as possible evidence in criminal cases in 1987, many scientific advances have developed and polished identification techniques thanks to this resource, making it more…
Porsche Panamera
The Porsche Panamera is Business Insider’s 2017 Car of the Year By Matthew DeBord and Benjamin Zhang From Business Insider Porsche Panamera Car of the year caroftheyear2017_final_3x4 (1) Our Porsche Panamera Turbo test car.Business Insider/Hollis Johnson/Mike Nudelman The Porsche Panamera…
DNA ‘robots’ could sort molecules in your blood
By Jon Fingas From engadget A single genetic strand is all it takes. Robots are already good at sorting things, so wouldn’t it be nice if they could sort things out on a much smaller scale? They might soon. Caltech…
Malicious code written into DNA infects the computer that reads it
By Devin Coldewey From TechCrunch In a mind-boggling world first, a team of biologists and security researchers have successfully infected a computer with a malicious program coded into a strand of DNA. It sounds like science fiction, but I assure…
