WATCH: Inside a CRISPR Lab
Posted on October 20, 2020 - 11:21am
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Blood Work: The Citizen Sleuth Using Genealogy to ID the Dead
ON APRIL 24, 1981, THE BODY OF A YOUNG WOMAN with auburn braids and a fringed jacket was discovered off the side of a road in Troy, Ohio.
She had been strangled to death only hours before. Authorities took DNA samples but couldn’t find a match for the woman. For decades, she was described only by the clothes on her back: “Buckskin Girl.”
From the Winter 2019 issue of California.
Cracking the Code: Jennifer Doudna and Her Amazing Molecular Scissors
Something remarkable has happened on the seventh floor of UC Berkeley’s Stanley Hall, where Professor Jennifer Doudna’s lab resides.
From the Winter 2014 Gender Assumptions issue of California.
Baby Code: Should all newborns get genetic tests?
We like to think human beings are created equal, but strictly speaking, it isn’t quite true. Many abnormalities, from premature births to immune diseases, can afflict newborn children with no advance warning. Now a team including researchers from UC Berkeley will investigate using newly affordable genetic tests to detect complications in newborns—while also examining the ethical concerns such tests could pose.
Posted on October 17, 2013 - 1:06pm
