Kristen V. Brown
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How A Legal Brawl Between Two Rich Guys Could Change How We Think About DNA
Illustration: Angelica Alzona (Gizmodo) It was the kind of lawsuit that would only happen in the US.
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Report: A DNA Testing Company Could Not Tell The Difference Between Human And Dog DNA
Dog may be man’s best friend, and even genetically similar to humans to boot, but there are enough key differences that it shouldn’t be too hard to distinguish between human and doggie DNA.
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What The Golden State Killer Case Reveals About Your Genetic Privacy
The identity of the Golden State Killer, a notorious serial killer who terrorised California in the 1970s and 1980s, evaded police for decades. The case went cold. Then, recently, investigators got a major break: A match for what seemed to be a close relative of the killer, uploaded onto a genealogy website.
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Forget The Double Helix, Australian Scientists Discovered A New DNA Structure Inside Human Cells
Guided by the work of Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953, a finding that gave rise to the modern field of molecular biology. It was by understanding DNA’s double-helix form that science was able to begin unravelling the many mysteries of genetic code.