Using Genetics to Enhance Meat Yield From Pigs
At Myora farm, near Mt Gambier in South Australia, Jeff Braun breeds over 30,000 pigs every year. He says the way of the future is using genetics to enhance the…
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Supreme Court Rules DNA Can be Taken After Arrest
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime, and see if the DNA…
Chinese project probes the genetics of genius
The US adolescents who signed up for the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) in the 1970s were the smartest of the smart, with mathematical and verbal-reasoning skills within the…
European Society of Human Genetics Urges Caution Over Use of New Genetic Sequencing Techniques
The use of genome-wide analysis (GWA), where the entirety of an individual’s DNA is examined to look for the genomic mutations or variants which can cause health problems is a…
Can We Patent Life?
Michael Specter writes for the New Yorker and discusses the question: Can we patent life? Excerpt: The intellectual and commercial bounty from that research has already been enormous, and it…
A Genetic Code for Genius?
A 20-year-old Chinese geneticist who has been dubbed the nation’s “Bill Gates” is three months away from releasing the results of a groundbreaking but controversial study to identify the genetics…