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The consumer genome sequencing company 23andMe is a sinking ship – and their CEO is on the deck, playing the violin.

23andMe CEO Says Company Is Doing Fine Despite Losing 93% of Stock Value

By Noor Al-Sibai

For decades, most people have believed that genes are the blueprint for life — but that perception, a pair of experts argue, falls short.

Genes Aren’t Actually the Blueprint of Life, Experts Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Direct-to-consumer DNA testing company 23andMe could soon run out of money after burning through over a billion dollars in cash.

23andMe Has Lost Billions, Almost Worthless Now

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers accessed user data from almost 7 million people from the commercial genetic testing company 23andMe.

Oops! 23andMe Admits Hackers Stole 7 Million Customers’ Genetic Data

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers have reduced the level of bad cholesterol in human subjects after injecting them with an experimental gene editing treatment.

Health & Medicine

Patient Dies After Being Gene-Edited to Have Lower Cholesterol

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists in China claim they were able to give deaf children the ability to hear after a novel genetic treatment.

New Genetic Treatment Successfully Lets Deaf Children Hear

By Sharon Adarlo

The consumer DNA kit company 23andMe has acknowledged that hackers had gained access to user accounts, but we have lots of questions.

Hackers Selling Stolen Customer DNA Data From 23AndMe

By Noor Al-Sibai

DNA tests promise to detail customers' ancestry — but in some cases, what the companies report is far more surprising than expected.

DNA Tests Have a Nasty Side Effect: Discovering Your Parents’ Secrets

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research suggests that smoking weed for years may change parts of your genetic code that can even be passed down to your offspring.

Smoking Weed Appears to Make Alterations to Your Genetic Code

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists have figured out a way to retrieve tiny traces of human genetic material called environmental DNA (eDNA) from thin air.

Experts Alarmed by Tech That Identifies Human DNA Floating in Air

By Victor Tangermann

A suspect has been arrested in connection with the 2022 firebombing of an anti-abortion office in Wisconsin via DNA he left on a burrito.

Wisconsin Firebombing Suspect Arrested From DNA Left on Burrito

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a story about an upcoming gene editing conference, one of the summit's organizers admitted something kind of odd about military use of gene editing.

Health & Medicine

Scientist Suggests Tweaks for Genetically Altered Supersoldiers

By Noor Al-Sibai

Police have made an arrest in the University of Idaho murder case, using "public genealogy databases" to link the alleged killer's DNA to the crime scene.

Police Say They Used Genealogy Database to Arrest Idaho Murder Suspect

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Just before his 200th birthday, scientists exhumed the remains of Gregor Mendel, the Czech friar credited with being the father of genetics.

Scientists Think Gregor Mendel Would Be “Happy” That They Dug Up His Body to Study His Genetics

By Noor Al-Sibai

An international team of scientists has recovered 2 million years old DNA from a variety of plants, fish — and even an ancient mastodon.

Scientists Sequence DNA They Found From 2 Million Years Ago

By Victor Tangermann

Cats, ever the mischievous and frisky pets, may be harboring a lot more human DNA than once thought, possibly tampering crime scenes, a new study says.

Science & Energy

Cats May Be Tampering With Crime Scenes, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Cops Upload Image of Suspect Generated From DNA, Then Delete After Mass Criticism

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Your Doppelganger May Have Strikingly Similar Genes, Habits

Your Doppelganger May Have Strikingly Similar Genes, Habits

By Frank Landymore

New Jersey has revealed that it used a newborn DNA sample to charge the child's father with a crime from 1996, which begs the question — what next?

Cops Use Newborn Baby’s DNA to Nail Dad for Crime from the 90s

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Colorado lawmaker warned that DNA-based bioweapons are on the horizon — and that private DNA-testing companies may make that possible by selling data.

House Rep Worried 23andMe Will Lead to Bioweapons That Kill Specific People Based on DNA

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Almost 47 years later, a discarded coffee cup containing DNA may be the key to solving an infamous cold case in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Science & Energy

Investigators Analyze DNA Sample to Make Arrest in 1975 Murder

By Frank Landymore

The rise of “genetic paparazzi” is imminent, and courts are poorly ill-equipped to deal with the potential consequences of celebrity DNA theft.

Professors Warn That Creeps Might Start Stealing DNA From Celebs For Dark Purposes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk Speculates About Storing All Human DNA in Database

Elon Musk Speculates About Storing All Human DNA in Database

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago say research shows binge drinking effects in youth can be reversed with CRISPR gene editing.

Scientist Say They Might Be Able to Reverse Binge Drinking With Gene Editing

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists have discovered the building blocks of DNA in meteorites that landed in North America and Australia, Reuters reports.

Scientists Find DNA Building Blocks in Asteroids

By Victor Tangermann

San Francisco cops are accused of entering the DNA of sexual assault victims into a database to help identify criminals — resulting in at least one arrest.

Cops Allegedly Used a Sexual Assault Survivor’s DNA to Arrest Her for Property Crime

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers may have found the molecular-level cause for Alzheimer's by looking deeper into the DNA tangles in the brains of dementia patients.

Scientists May Have Found the Molecular-Level Cause for Alzheimer’s

By Noor Al-Sibai

An updated lawsuit claims that a DNA analysis of the sandwich chain Subway's putative tuna shows that the substance contains anything but.

Science & Energy

Lawsuit Claims That Subway “Tuna” Contains Extremely Weird DNA

By Jon Christian

Scientists have discovered a new DNA structure they call the "Borg" that assimilates genes from other microorganisms in its surroundings.

Scientists Discover Extremely Long “Borg” DNA

By Tony Ho Tran

After Subway was sued for allegedly lying about its tuna sandwiches, a NYT reporter decided to buy some of the meat and test its DNA.

Science & Energy

DNA Test Fails to Find Any Tuna in Subway Tuna Sandwiches

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a key difference in how human and mosquito DNA organizes into chromosomes then figured out how to morph them back and forth.

Scientists Morph Human DNA Into Mosquito DNA Structure

By Dan Robitzski

A genetic sequencing startup is putting famed geneticist George Church's own DNA for sale as an NFT.

A Harvard Scientist Is Selling His Genetic Code as an NFT

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists can now filter freely-floating DNA out of the air, allowing them to track and monitor what animals are in the area.

Science & Energy

New Technique Identifies DNA Floating Through the Air

By Dan Robitzski

Quantum phenomena like proton tunneling can, in unusual cases, cause point mutations in human DNA, according to a new study.

Quantum Physics Can Mutate Human DNA, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A new artificial intelligence algorithm can create full human genomes indistinguishable from the real thing, but it's not clear how useful it is.

Artificial Intelligence

New Algorithm Generates Synthetic Human Genetic Code

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have managed to program data into the DNA of living bacteria for the first time, allowing the data to be passed on to the next generation.

Science & Energy

Scientists Successfully Store Data Inside DNA of Living Bacteria

By Victor Tangermann

The private equity firm Blackstone just purchased Ancestry as well as its massive databse of customers' genetic information.

A Private Equity Firm Just Bought the Largest Consumer DNA Database

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists encoded the entire "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" into a double strand of DNA to demo a vastly improved storage technology.

Scientists Stored “The Wizard of Oz” on a Strand of DNA

By Dan Robitzski

China has been taking blood samples from every man and boy in the country in order to build a vast genetic database of their DNA.

China Is Building a Genetic Database of Every Man in the Country

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are trying to develop an experimental DNA-based vaccine that would hijack your cells' DNA to create an immune response to COVID-19.

Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Hacks Your DNA to Build Immunity

By Dan Robitzski

A true mad scientist bred 97 different kinds of broccoli and mapped their DNA. The verdict? all of them were "delicious."

A Researcher Grew 97 Kinds of Broccoli and Sequenced Their DNA

By Dan Robitzski

Geneticist George Church created an FAQ for his in-development DNA dating app to address comparisons to the notorious eugenics movement.

Geneticist Says His DNA Dating App Isn’t Really Eugenics

By Kristin Houser

GEDMatch, the DNA ancestry company that famously helped police track down a serial killer, just got bought by a genetic forensics firm.

Tech Firm That Develops Tools for Police Buys Massive DNA Database

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists encoded instructions for creating a 3D-printed plastic bunny in DNA and then embedded the DNA right in the bunny itself.

Science & Energy

This Plastic Bunny Has DNA Explaining How to Make More Bunnies

By Kristin Houser

Geneticist George Church is creating a DNA-based dating app that matches people based on their likelihood of not passing genetic diseases to offspring.

Famous Geneticist’s Dating App Would Match Users Based on DNA

By Kristin Houser

China is taking DNA samples from its persecuted Uigher population to develop a troubling new form of genetic surveillance.

China Is Using Blood From Minorities For Genetic Research

By Dan Robitzski

A wave of questionable startups claim they can test your DNA and make complicated predictions about your personality and health. Experts say it's hogwash.

“Like Horoscope Readings!”: The Scammy World of DNA Test Startups

By Dan Robitzski

An app claiming to use DNA tests to determine whether someone's gay is under fire by the scientists who actually conducted the research it's based on.

Scientists Call For Removal of App Claiming to Detect Gay DNA

By Dan Robitzski

An app literally called "How Gay Are You" uses incredibly questionable science to predict whether people are homosexual based on their DNA test results.

This Startup Says It Can Analyze Your DNA to Detect if You’re Gay

By Dan Robitzski

LifeShip will send your DNA to the Moon for $99 — a whimsical undertaking that could also ensure humanity lives on even if Earth becomes uninhabitable.

This Startup Will Send DNA From Your Spit to the Moon for $99

By Kristin Houser

The New York Police Department is growing a massive DNA database of thousands of genetic profiles, The New York Times reports.

Police Are Collecting DNA From People Without Telling Them

By Victor Tangermann

One of the scientists behind an experiment that gave monkeys human DNA, thereby making them smarter, has defended the controversial study to CNN.

Science & Energy

Chinese Scientist Defends Splicing Human Brain Gene Into Monkeys

By Kristin Houser

Family Tree DNA, recently celebrated as the most privacy-minded consumer genetic testing company, is now granting database access to the FBI.

This DNA Testing Company Gave Its Data to the FBI

By Dan Robitzski

The SEC Is Letting a Company Treat Your Genetic Code as Currency

Health & Medicine

The SEC Is Letting a Company Treat Your Genetic Code as Currency

By Kristin Houser

Get Ready for Pills Programmed to Respond to Your Cells’ Individual Needs

Health & Medicine

Get Ready for Pills Programmed to Respond to Your Cells’ Individual Needs

By Jon Christian

Just two percent of adults would have to upload their DNA to genealogy sites before you could use a DNA sample to find a relative of virtually anyone.

Health & Medicine

Creeps Will Soon Be Able to Find Almost Anyone on Genealogy Sites

By Jon Christian

This Week in Science: Sept 29 – Oct 5

Science & Energy

This Week in Science: Sept 29 – Oct 5

By Victor Tangermann

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Spotify Will Make a Playlist Based on Your DNA

By Jon Christian

Researchers have figured out a way to map the human genome in three dimensions, using enzymes to calculate a gene's distance from a cell's nucleus.

Science & Energy

15 Years Ago, We Sequenced the Human Genome. Now We Can 3D Map It.

By Kristin Houser

Think Deleting Your Facebook Profile Is Hard? Try Deleting Your Genomic Data.

By Kristin Houser

Genetic Analysis Helped The AP Catch Sketchy Fisheries

Genetic Analysis Helped The AP Catch Sketchy Fisheries

By Dan Robitzski

Some Genetic Tests Apparently Can’t Tell If You’re Dog Or Human

Health & Medicine

Some Genetic Tests Apparently Can’t Tell If You’re Dog Or Human

By Claudia Geib

Plan to Create a Genetic Rolodex of Life on Earth Could Save Lives

Plan to Create a Genetic Rolodex of Life on Earth Could Save Lives

By Kristin Houser

Scientists Just Stored The Hottest Album From 1998 In Literal DNA

Scientists Just Stored The Hottest Album From 1998 In Literal DNA

By Victor Tangermann