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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.
Written by J.J. Yong on August 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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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 shape and it makes it very difficult to retrieve any DNA out of it,” she said.
Because mitochondrial DNA is passed down only through mothers, scientists can use samples from blood or cheek swabs from siblings or other close relatives to confirm identities…”
Written by J.J. Yong on August 15th, 2008 with no comments.
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