Showing posts with label DNA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DNA. Show all posts
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Children adopted from China can now find birth-family connections via DNA sites

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 Like children conceived with the help of anonymous sperm donors, adopted children can use DNA websites to search for family members.  For c...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Digital DNA still needs to find a business model

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 DNA information is digital, so for a while we seemed poised on a 'viral' bio-informatics revolution, which may still come.  23andMe...
Friday, February 2, 2024

Picking the wrong pony: wolves and people in Europe

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 The Guardian has the story, within the larger story of controversy about wolves, and endangered species. A wolf killed the EU president’s p...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

Digital data yields suspect in Idaho murders (NYT)

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 The NYT has the story of how a wide ranging search of a large variety of digital data  led to an arrest of a suspect (whose trial hasn'...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Some kinds of privacy may be gone forever

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Lots of family secrets are revealed by DNA analysis, and it may no longer be possible to keep those secrets.  That is part of the argument ...
Saturday, September 7, 2019

DNA tests are revealing medical misconduct in early sperm donation

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The NY Times has the story, summarizing many recently discovered cases in which fertility doctors used their own sperm in place of other sp...
Thursday, April 4, 2019

A new repugnant use of DNA information--'clarifying' Who is a Jew

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The Jerusalem Post has the story: CHIEF RABBINATE ADMITS USING DNA TESTS TO HELP DETERMINE JEWISH STATUS Orthodox organizations denounce ...