DNA databases unite to create a fully open resource for transposable element research

For more than three decades, researchers studying genomes have relied on foundational resources such as Repbase and, more ...
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New global DNA database aims to fight illegal sea turtle trade worldwide

Researchers with the World Wildlife Fund have developed ShellBank, the world’s first global marine turtle DNA database, to ...
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A turtle DNA database is the first-of-its-kind effort to try to keep them from extinction

Scientists with the World Wildlife Fund started a turtle DNA database that is helping with efforts to protect and keep ...
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As DNA Databases Grow, Uses Grow Too

Here's a scenario: police take a blood sample from a crime scene. They compare the DNA to that of convicted criminals, but get no match. But they find someone with similar DNA, and that leads them to ...
Mother Jones

Migrants’ DNA Is Fueling a Massive Expansion of the FBI’s Genetic Database

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Ever since the Trump administration scaled up DNA collection from migrants in federal ...
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Could public DNA databases crack the Nancy Guthrie case?

Nearly two weeks after Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona, home, law enforcement says a glove found not far from the residence did not match any DNA in the government’s criminal ...