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Evidence in support of UK DNA database is "most unclear and badly presented piece of research" - Boing Boing
The British Home Office want to keep a huge DNA database of people who've been acquitted of crimes (or arrested and then released with charges dropped), saying that "innocent people who have been arrested are as likely to commit crimes in the future as gu
DNA Sudoku: Scientific American
Invented about 2,000 years ago, the theorem is a method for mapping information using prime and co-prime numbers. In the case of DNA sequencing and Sudoku, the theorem is used to organize data points with coordinates in a box, but it can also be used to f
Simple Chemical System Created That Mimics DNA
A team of Scripps Research scientists has created a new analog to DNA that assembles and disassembles itself without the need for enzymes. Because the new system comprises components that might reasonably be expected in a primordial world, the new chemica
California Pushes Back on DNA Testing
Is reading someone's genetic code the same thing as practicing medicine? That issue has always loomed over the nascent direct-to-consumer genetic-testing industry, which includes such well-known names as 23andme, Navigenics, and DeCodeMe.
It has become v
1. The Retail DNA Test - TIME's Best Inventions of 2008 - TIME
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We are at the beginning of a personal-genomics revolution that will transform not only how we take care of ourselves but also what we mean by personal information. In the past, only élite researchers had access to their genetic fingerprints, but now personal genotyping is available to anyone who orders the service online and mails in a spit sample. Not everything about how this information will be used is clear yet — 23andMe has stirred up debate about issues ranging from how meaningful the results are to how to prevent genetic discrimination — but the curtain has been pulled back, and it can never be closed again. And so for pioneering retail genomics, 23andMe's DNA-testing service is Time's 2008 Invention of the Year.
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The 1997 film Gattaca depicted it as a futuristic nightmare, but human-genotyping has emerged instead as both a real business and a status symbol. Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein says he is backing 23andMe not for its cinematic possibilities but because "I think it is a good investment. This is strictly medical and business-like." Google has chipped in almost half the $8.9 million in funding raised by the firm, which counts Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch and Ivanka Trump among its clients.
BBC NEWS | UK | Should we all be testing our DNA?
Should we all be testing our DNA? More and more people in the UK are following America's lead in spending hundreds of pounds on private genetic tests. Computer model of DNA structure The tests analyse a fraction of the genes which make up human DNA Such p
Study criticises DNA database - Yahoo! News UK
Innocent people should have their profiles deleted from the National DNA Database, an inquiry funded by the Government has said.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Meet the innovators
The DNA fingerprinting technique developed by British geneticist Sir Alec Jeffreys has revolutionised the field of forensic science, and police detective work.
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