Australian scientists based at Monash University worked with an international team to study the DNA fingerprint of groups of embryos before undergoing IVF implantation, and then again from the successful deliveries nine months later. (more…)
A good bit of news for everyone who has or will have a DNA test; federal laws have been enacted to protect individuals from having their genetic test results used as the basis for discrimination by health insurance companies. . Rep Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., one of the bill’s key sponsors said: (more…)
The simplest way to explain this is to first have a look at the parts of our DNA that DO have known functions. (more…)
You never met them, but without them you wouldn’t be here. They’re your ancestors; those long-forgotten people whose lives were so different, yet so similar, to yours today.
Why study these people who are long gone and buried? Well, think about it. If just one of the thousands of your direct ancestors didn’t exist, you wouldn’t either. If your great-great-great-great-great-grandmother never met your great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, your significant other would never have met you because, well, you wouldn’t be alive. (more…)
In this section we will compile a comprehensive set of reviews about individual DNA testing kits, from paternity, genealogical, and medical.
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This is a great little clip that will give you a nice visual handle on what DNA looks like, and by extension, how your genetic information is arranged. These are the building blocks that all types of DNA tests are interogating. It’s truely mind boggling that it’s just a few small differences out of the hugely long sequences shown in the video that DNA testing can examine show us our ancestry or reveal a disease risk factor. Click more for the video. (more…)