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A compilation of interesting articles related to genetic science and breakthroughs, family discovery, and the solving of past crimes through DNA testing.

Family Discovery

How a DNA Testing Kit Revealed a Family Secret Hidden for 54 Years'The results changed everything I had ever understood about myself'

Your DNA test: Readers share amazing ancestry tales, surprise family membersReaders share their amazing tales and surprises from searching their geneaology and DNA tests such as Ancestry or 23 and me.

DNA test 'accidentally unlocks family mystery' for ABC News correspondentI was convinced to take this test on 23andMe by my mother, who wanted to know what my ethnic, regional, national background was. My dad was adopted in 1950.

Crime Solving Cases

For the first time, a DNA profile has been created for 2007 cold case murder involving 68-year-old womanDetectives have always believed that the gunfire at Marianne Wilkinson's door was not meant for her.

Idaho student killings suspect identified by DNA in public genealogy databaseBryan Christopher Kohberger was arrested in Pennsylvania on accusations that he murdered four students

DNA Used to Solve Decades-Old Cold Case Murder of 11-Year-Old Julie FullerFort Worth police say they’ve solved the decades-old cold case murder of an 11-year-old girl using DNA phenotyping. On June 27, 1983, Julie Fuller was reported missing after she’d gone to take out the trash at the Kensington Motel in Arlington. Fuller and her family had only recently arrived in North Texas, having moved to the United States from England….

Man gives DNA to find out if he's Detroit boy missing since 1994A Michigan man give a DNA sample to the Livonia Police Department to find out if he is D'Wan Sims, a boy who has been missing for 25 years.

DNA Science and Genetic Testing

'Your father's not your father': when DNA tests reveal more than you bargained forGenetic tests are seen as harmless fun. But the secrets they can reveal can split families and leave users traumatised

Common Ideas about Neanderthals and Prehistoric Peoples That Aren't TrueThere is a lot that we know about the first people on Earth. Most commonly referred to as neanderthals, these early humans lived on our planet up until roughly 40,000 years ago. They went extinct for a variety of reasons. Researchers have been fascinated by the origins of the human race for centuries. Although there …

Traces of mystery ancient humans found lurking in our genomesPrehistoric humans were sexual adventurers, mating with Neanderthals and Denisovans, but DNA studies reveal dalliances with populations we never knew existed

The Science of Sickness: Local labs test DNA to help determine the right treatmentCINCINNATI (WKRC) - The first flu-related death was reported in Northern Kentucky on Friday. If you have flu symptoms and you get tested at your doctor's office, they send that to a lab such as Gravity Diagnostics, who can test for all kinds of things to make sure you get the right treatment. "The rapid flu test is a good test but, you know, it doesn't show you everything. It has a very high false-positive rate, so we're actually doing the molecular to diagnose.

Scientists Recreate the Face of a Denisovan Using DNABy mapping gene expressions, researchers can determine some anatomical features of our distant hominin relatives

Study: The human lifespan is written into our DNAHumans have a "natural" lifespan of around 38 years, according to a new method we have developed for estimating the lifespans of different species by analyzing their DNA.

The DNA storyThe discovery of the structure of DNA was reported 50 years ago this month.

DNA may hold clues to extinct animal lifespanScientists calculate the lifespans of long-lost species, including ancient human relatives.

How a DNA revolution has decoded the origins of our humanityGiant leaps in our understanding of the human journey are now being made by sifting earth samples for the DNA of our ancestors

"They must have worked all night because the very next day they contacted me and made me the happiest 83 year old on the planet!"

Ron K - Las Vegas NV

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