MediPro Direct

08/08/2022

MediPro Direct has partnered with Vanguard Genetics for research on prenatal DNA. PM us if you are interested in participating by providing 10ml of blood through a non-invasive (no fetal risk) blood draw. Participants must be pregnant, past their first trimester, and know they are having a male child. Blood draw is performed at your home or place of work and participants receive $100 for the draw.

07/12/2019

Whoa!

Mosquitoes can smell blood type. People with type O blood are twice likely to be bitten by mosquitoes than people with type A blood.

03/15/2019

Some "local" DNA news for us up here in the PNW!

https://www.facebook.com/201148780086040/posts/1067813366752906/

After an exhaustive forensic investigation, the victim in a cold case from 1971 has now been identified as a 16-year-old girl from Aberdeen, Washington.

03/02/2019

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The frozen remains of a horse more than half a million years old have reluctantly given up their genetic secrets, providing scientists with the oldest DNA ever sequenced. The horse...

02/02/2019

DNA solves another cold case!

Jerry Walter McFadden, a convicted serial killer and ra**st who was executed in Texas in 1999, was identified as the man who sexually assaulted and strangled 20-year-old Anna Marie Hlavka in her Northwest Portland apartment on July 24, 1979. The case was solved through the same DNA technology that l...

05/03/2018

Podcast by the Insight!

Please join them at any of the following links:
• http://insitome.libsyn.com/website/the-golden-state-killer-and-the-genetic-panopticon
• https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-insight/id1324744423?mt=2
• https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/insitome/the-insight

This week, Spencer and Razib talk to genetic genealogist Roberta Estes about the Golden State Killer case and how the rise of genetic genealogy and citizen science databases helped to track down the suspect.

04/30/2018

More information, because it's getting HOT out there in DNA land......particularly when it comes to intellectual property and privacy rights. I know I am having to explain this all to anyone and everyone, and it's not easy. I easily forget about GINA legislation...so this is a great article and helpful reminder!!!

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days, you already know that the Golden State Killer has, it appears, been apprehended by: Sequencing DNA from the original crime scene Upload…

03/18/2018

Jennifer's grandson has heterochromia!

The rarest of the rare.

01/17/2018

Arcpoint Labs Las Vegas results from some of our Ancestry tests!

01/09/2018

https://www.vox.com/2018/1/9/16862980/google-doodle-har-gobind-khorana-genetics-dna

Tuesday’s Google Doodle honors the pioneering biochemist and Nobel Laureate.

07/11/2017

If you don't subscribe to this magazine, you should consider it. Always so much interesting information about DNA! http://genomemag.com/crispr-comes-to-the-clinic/?utm_source=newsletter_text&utm_medium=email&utm_content=CRISPR&utm_campaign=Jan2017_enewsletter #.WWTsVIjyuUk