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Before You Take a Mail-In DNA Test, Brace Yourself for Family Secrets – Lifehacker

Before You Take a Mail-In DNA Test, Brace Yourself for Family Secrets  Lifehacker

Like many people, Barbara Greenberg wasn’t looking to unlock any deep, dark family secrets when she spit into a tube a few years ago and sent her DNA off to …

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DNA folding and quantum imaging: News from the College | Imperial News – Imperial College London

DNA folding and quantum imaging: News from the College | Imperial News  Imperial College London

Here’s a batch of *fresh* news and announcements from across Imperial. From DNA folds offering ways to predict diabetes, to new funding for harnessing the …

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Five Cold Cases Where Injustice Was Righted Through Dogged Investigation | Crime Time – Oxygen

Five Cold Cases Where Injustice Was Righted Through Dogged Investigation | Crime Time  Oxygen

Sometimes justice comes for victims of heinous crimes years — or even decades — later. Get ready for “Injustice With Nancy Grace” with these five cases that …

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DNA Testing Service Left Client Health Records Open to Public – Insurance Journal

DNA Testing Service Left Client Health Records Open to Public  Insurance Journal

DNA-testing *service* Vitagene Inc. left thousands of client health reports exposed online for years, the kind of incident that privacy advocates have.

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How Kamala Harris’ Rape Kit Backlog Plan Tackles The Nationwide Crisis – Bustle

How Kamala Harris’ Rape Kit Backlog Plan Tackles The Nationwide Crisis  Bustle

Evidence in sexual assault cases has been sitting untested across the United States for years, but one presidential candidate has a proposal to change that. Sen …

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Study Finds Eating Pistachios May Help Reduce Damage To DNA – PRNewswire

Study Finds Eating Pistachios May Help Reduce Damage To DNA  PRNewswire

FRESNO, Calif., July 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Researchers at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain, Institute of Health Pere Virgili, CIBER, discovered that …

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DNA Testing Service Vendor Reports Years-Long Consumer Data Breach – Xtelligent Healthcare Media

DNA Testing Service Vendor Reports Years-Long Consumer Data Breach  Xtelligent Healthcare Media

Direct-to-Consumer DNA testing *service* vendor Vitagene reportedly left the personal and genetic data of 3000 users exposed online for several years, …

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Viking bones and DNA will decay quickly as Greenland thaws – Mashable

Viking bones and DNA will decay quickly as Greenland thaws  Mashable

Viking settlers abandoned Greenland some 600 years ago. But the frozen ground has preserved centuries of the seafarers’ hardy existence on the western …

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Happy Birthday, DNA Pioneer Rosalind Franklin – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Happy Birthday, DNA Pioneer Rosalind Franklin  NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

The 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, recognizing their work in discovering the …