Archive for August, 2008

Google Story - The Demystifying the Human Genome

This is not just about “Google Story”. It is about David Vise’s talk about Google’s co-founder, Sergey Brin’s interest in combining technology and genetics. It is indeed a long video clip - around 55:33.
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Advanced DNA Testing Improves Solving Missing Cases

Police authorities in Alberta, Canada used mitochondrial DNA test to identify a man who had been missing since 17 years ago. Normal DNA testing methods are difficult to identify a person from his body remains. Here’s why:
“At the end of all that process, the DNA remaining inside the bone samples themselves is in very poor [...]