How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer
By Raffi Khatchadourian The New Yorker On Thanksgiving morning, 1987, Rick Bart, a homicide detective in Snohomish County, Washington, got word that a pheasant hunter had discovered a body in […]
Tag Archives: DNA
The Terrifying Privacy Policies of DNA Testing Companies
By Kristin V. Brown Gizmodo You probably wouldn’t hand out your social security number without having a pretty good idea of how that information was going to be used, right? […]
The Future of DNA Profiling
By Francie Diep Pacific Standard Despite what procedural dramas might lead you to believe, the DNA that police collect at crime scenes can’t tell you anything about the characteristics of […]
Is Aging Inevitable?
By Josh Mitteldorf & Dorion Sagan Nautilus Humans age gradually, but some animals do all their aging in a rush at the end of life, while others don’t age at […]
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