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“The state of DNA synthesis is a bit like humanity’s journey to the moon—just because something has been achieved before doesn’t mean we should cease figuring out how to do it better.” That is how ...
In November 2016, virologist David Evans traveled to Geneva for a meeting of a World Health Organization committee on smallpox research. The deadly virus had been declared eradicated 36 years earlier; ...
Genetic genealogy research is a relatively new field – driven by "citizen scientists" with a passion for cracking unsolved cases and knowledge of how to look at both DNA and public records databases, ...