Fleshing out the details of ancient humanity has typically begun with fossil finds and then, years later, sequencing genes and genomes. That…
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post Thriving in Thin Air Goes Back 160,000 Years to the Denisovans, New Study FindsRead more
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post DNA Day Has a New Meaning For Me This Year: I’m an NPERead more
“Not parent expected” – NPE – is a surprise that thousands of us have gotten as a result of consumer ancestry DNA…
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post An Ultrarare Liver Disease, PFIC2: Trinity’s StoryRead more
Ultrarare genetic diseases often appear with a series of symptoms that might seem unconnected. Brooke Harrison Ramirez’s pregnancy had been easy eight…
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post Milkweed Bug Genome RevealedRead more
I’ll admit that I have long admired the beauty of the large milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus, without knowing anything about it. So…
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post Cataracts and Amyloid Beta: Early Marker and New Drug Target?Read more
I’ve just had cataract surgeries, so I wasn’t thrilled to find a new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
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post A New Biological Aging Clock: Ribosomal DNARead more
Chronological aging is easy to track – birthdays. Biological aging can be obvious too – graying hair, sagging skin, and other inexorable…
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post Are Eurocentric Genetic Databases Hampering Health Care?Read more
A commentary published today in the journal Cell offers evidence of a stunning imbalance in the population groups that participate in genetic and…
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post How DNA Ancestry Testing is Like the Wheel of Fortune: Filling in the BlanksRead more
“Ricki, we have another one.” AncestryDNA has spit out yet another half-sibling. I’m a curious hybrid, a geneticist and an “NPE” – “not…
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post Rare Disease Day 2019: Roan’s StoryRead more
For 2019’s Rare Disease Day, DNA Science honors those who have fragile X syndrome (FXS). It isn’t among the rarest of the rare…
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post Measles and an Outbreak of Science IlliteracyRead more
On January 22, the World Health Organization declared anti-vaxxers a “Top Threat to Global Health in 2019.” The agency specified “ vaccine hesitancy&rdquo…
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post Baboon Genomes Offer Clues to the Past and Future of HumanityRead more
“Once upon a time, in a cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, different types of ancient peoples were having sex,&rdquo…
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post 300th Post at DNA Science TodayRead more
This is my 300th blog post for DNA Science. I’m so grateful to Public Library of Science for enabling me to comment so…