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Nobel Prize Awarded for DNA Research Will Be Auctioned Off

by DDC Development | Mar 20, 2013 | DNA science

Frances Crick, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962. The medal, along with a selection of other Crick-related items, will be auctioned in April 2013. The landmark discovery of the double-helix structure by...

Storing Shakespeare in your Blood? Not exactly, but close.

by DDC Development | Feb 9, 2013 | DNA science

Scientists announced on January 23, 2013 that they have successfully converted 739 kilobytes of hard drive data in genetic code. Not only that, but they retrieved the content with 100 percent accuracy! When one imagines the evolving coexistence of humans and machines,...

DNA Tests prove that the body found under a parking lot belongs to King Richard III; but was he truly a “hunchback?”

by DDC Development | Feb 7, 2013 | Ancestry DNA Testing, DNA science, DNA test, Forensic DNA Testing, Genetics

Long viewed as a hunchbacked villain, King Richard III may be in for a rewritten history. DNA tests prove that the skeleton found beneath an English car park just a few months ago belongs to the oft-vilified king. But did he really suffer from kyphosis (“hunchback”...

DNA-Inspired Art: Wear Your Genes or Paint with Blood

by DDC Development | Feb 4, 2013 | DNA science

We here at DNA Diagnostics Center know that DNA is beautiful. Though, sometimes it’s easy to get wrapped up in the scientific potential of DNA. Less often do we take the time to appreciate its visual beauty, which is sad because as you will see, DNA-inspired art can...

Human DNA Finds its Way Into Gelatin | DDC

by DDC Development | Jan 17, 2013 | DNA science

Back in 2011, The Telegraph reported on advances in technology that would potentially allow 300,000 tons of animal-based gelatin currently produced annually (for marshmallows, candies, donut filling, and countless other face-stuffables) to be offset with gelatin...

King Louis XVI's DNA Found on Decorative Squash

by DDC Development | Jan 9, 2013 | DNA science

Legend has it that when France’s King Louis XVI was killed via guillotine some 200 years ago during the French Revolution, someone used a handkerchief to soak up the king’s blood, then stored the handkerchief in a gourd. DNA has confirmed this to be true,...

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