Notices tagged with dna

ICE uses several databases & govt records to track down targets.

…Mellissa Harper, a former #ICE official who now heads #ORR, told a staff meeting on Thurs that the agency plans to use #DNA tests to establish familial relationships, one of the sources said. It was unclear whether DNA tests would be used only on cases that raised a red flag, or on a routine basis.

#law #Trump #Immigration #FamilySeparation #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteSupremacy #HumanRights #Humanity #USpol

I’m going to need you to read all of this and consider the possibility that you’re not educated enough to make finite determinations on the validity of someone else’s gender. The simple fact is, it’s of no consequence to you, but if you somehow feel it is, know that you’re too ignorant for it to be. 💋

#Trans #Gender #Intersex #NonBinary #DNA #EnoughIsEnough

Please read this thread by the #Reuters' correspondent in Rome, #GavinJones about the endless cruelty by Italian authorities: they want to force a Nigerian migrant,who got a regular job,to take a #DNA test to prove his daughters are his daughters:

https://x.com/gavinjones10/status/1871594162593976702?t=V-E6lG6z4BDCxlxuUkTHjA&s=19

Putin expresses support for requiring DNA samples from all Russian soldiers

#Russia #Military #Support #DNA #Sampling

https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/10/putin-expresses-support-for-requiring-dna-samples-from-all-russian-soldiers

Scientists Built a Tiny DNA 'Hand' That Grabs Viruses to Stop Infections

#NanoGripper #VirusInfectionControl #DNA #DNAtechnology #BiomedicalEngineering

https://gizmodo.com/scientists-built-a-tiny-dna-hand-that-grabs-viruses-to-stop-infections-2000533130

War harms children in ways that are measurable through DNA analysis. Assigned female children are more highly impacted than assigned male children.
#War #DNA #Children #Health
https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/news/war-trauma-linked-to-lifelong-dna-methylation-impacts-393497

DNA firm holding highly sensitive data 'vanishes' without warning

A DNA-testing firm appears to have ceased trading - without telling its customers what has happened to the highly sensitive data they shared with it.

Atlas Biomed users are no longer able to access their personalised reports online and the company has not responded to the BBC's requests for comment.

#AtlasBiomed #DNA #genetics #privacy #biotech #business #data #bigdata #technology #tech

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7wl7rpndjo

Today's #SciArtSeptember prompt is "Antiparallel". My mind immediately goes to DNA, and I drew an abstract double strand.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/111214864
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-September-2024-M4M612QKIY

#SciArt #ink #drawing #art #DNA

So, it cuts the one good thing along with jobs!

23andMe is ending its cancer research program and slashing over 200 jobs

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/12/24294473/23andme-layoffs-40-percent-employees

#23andMe #Cancer #Research #Labor #Layoffs #DNA #Tech

The US Has a Cloned Sheep Contraband Problem - https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-has-a-cloned-sheep-contraband-problem-montana-mountain-king/ "Potentially dozens of MMK’s descendants may now be at large in the US." such a #2024 problem... #DNA #cloning #kazakhstan

#NHS to launch 'real-time surveillance system' to prevent future pandemics - https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/08/nhs_realtime_surveillance_pandemic/ "#Nanopore #DNA screening technology may identify novel pathogens, propose treatments in as little as six hours" could be good...

Identity of casts of victims at #Pompeii not all they seem, research suggests - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/07/identity-of-casts-of-victims-at-pompeii-not-all-they-seem-research-suggests "extracted ancient nuclear and mitochondrial #DNA from samples of bone fragments mixed with plaster taken from 14 casts that were undergoing restoration"

Sea angels and devils: could #plankton unlock the secrets of human biology? - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/05/ocean-genome-atlas-project-scientists-plankton-dna-secrets-human-biology-sailing-boats "Scientists use new technology to sequence the #DNA of microscopic ocean creatures for the first time"

🔴 🇪🇸 DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville

"On Thursday, after two decades of DNA testing and research, the forensic medical expert José Antonio Lorente said the incomplete set of remains in Seville Cathedral were indeed those of Columbus."

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/11/dna-study-christopher-columbus-remains-seville-cathedral

#History #Histodon #Histodons #DNA #Genetics #Science #Seville #Spain #Europe #Colonialism @science @histodon @histodons

👀 34 neue genetische Erkrankungen entdeckt: Zusammen mit 15 anderen universitären Standorten klärt ein Team der #CharitéBerlin bei fast 500 Menschen die Ursache ihrer Seltenen Erkrankung und findet auch neue Krankheitsbilder.

👉 https://www.charite.de/forschung/themen_forschung/2024/sehr_selten_studie_entdeckt_34_neue_genetische_erkrankungen/

#Medizin #CharitéPaper #CharitéSelteneErkrankungen #MedMastodon #ScienceMastodon #Forschung #Wissenschaft #Genetik #NatureGenetics #SelteneErkrankung #DNA

Biometrie: Vietnams Ausweise enthalten bald Daten zu DNA, Iris und Stimme

Ab dem Sommer sollen in Vietnam Informationen für die neuen Ausweiskarten gesammelt werden. Dazu gehören Informationen zur DNA, Iris-Scans und Stimmaufnahmen.

https://www.heise.de/news/Biometrie-Vietnams-Ausweise-enthalten-bald-Daten-zu-DNA-Iris-und-Stimme-9632970.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#Biometrie #DNA #news

#Surveillance towers and #DNA analysis: US immigration bill would create ‘a #privacy nightmare’ - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/06/us-immigration-bill-mexico-border-surveillance-privacy "Experts issue warning over bipartisan measure’s $400m in funding for tools that would ‘hyper-amplify what’s already happening’"

Mysterious artifacts suggest modern humans and Neanderthals lived side by side for millennia
https://www.science.org/content/article/mysterious-ice-age-artifacts-suggest-modern-humans-and-neanderthals-overlapped-europe
#archaeology #Homosapiens #neanderthal #europe UpperPalaeolithic #assemblage #DNA

Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06923-7 #archaeology #Homosapiens #europe #Middle #UpperPalaeolithic #LRJ #assemblage #DNA