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Genetic Engineering of Humans

Genetic Engineering of Humans

What’s your response going to be the first time you hear that a human has been cloned?  How are you going to react the first you hear that a baby has been born that has been genetically modified? What are you going to do when you go to the doctor with something...
The Mystery of Personal Ancestry

The Mystery of Personal Ancestry

The things we can now learn about ourselves, and our recent history, through ancestry testing are simply amazing. Revisiting the SNP chip used by Ancestry.com and 23andMe.com, 4-grandparent test, amazing geographic specificity, no you do not have thousands of...
The Mystery of DNA Sequencing

The Mystery of DNA Sequencing

Dr C explains how to sequence DNA, how to build a genome, and how Ancestry and 23andMe work their magic. Bacterial polymerases do all the work for us, PCR and DNA sequencing, the genome, shotgun sequencing, example: shotgunning the Bible, size of the genome vs a book...