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An artist’s reconstruction of Pleistocene Yukon shows Arctic ground squirrels scavenging meat and foraging on plants within the mammoth-steppe ecosystem. Ancient DNA from their preserved burrows and feces reveals this complex food web, where even small rodents fed on megafauna like mammoths. (Mercedes Minck/Hakai Institute) Scientists have reconstructed genomes of …
Read More »U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample
American lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a Canadian man says U.S. customs officers held him for three hours at the border and forced him to provide a DNA sample before sending him home. U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, a Democrat who represents an area of Michigan just …
Read More »DNA recovered from glove found near Guthrie home, FBI says
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The FBI says a glove containing DNA was found about three kilometres from Nancy Guthrie’s home …
Read More »Bankrupt DNA testing company 23andMe to be bought by Regeneron
Drugmaker Regeneron Pharmaceuticals will buy genetic testing firm 23andMe Holding for $256 million USD through a bankruptcy auction, the companies said on Monday. Regeneron said it will comply with 23andMe’s privacy policies and applicable laws with respect to the use of customer data and that it is ready to detail its intended use of the …
Read More »DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy, CEO resigns
23andMe on Sunday filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. after struggling with the fallout of a data breach and weak demand for its ancestry testing kits that featured in Oprah Winfrey’s annual list of favourite things just eight years ago. The biotech unicorn has seen a sharp fall in its …
Read More »Joly says Canada-U.K. friendship is ‘in our DNA’ after British PM’s White House comments
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said she doesn’t believe the relationship between Canada and the United Kingdom has changed after comments made by the British prime minister during a visit to the White House. At a news conference in Vancouver on Friday, Joly said “no country on Earth will be able …
Read More »Vancouver suspect in 1996 cold case homicide identified through DNA analysis
The news caught retired Ottawa police investigator Randy Wisker by surprise. It came via a courtesy call informing the former serious crimes detective sergeant about a break in an unsolved homicide he had worked on three decades earlier. The victim, 22-year-old Christopher Smith, had been fatally stabbed in an altercation on the …
Read More »Daughter of Holocaust survivor uses genealogy website to find family
Following a decades-long journey to piece together the puzzle of her past, a retired Toronto teacher has discovered answers and made connections with relatives she never knew existed. Elana Milman was six years old and living on a kibbutz in northern Israel when she learned she had been adopted as …
Read More »Ontario cold case: DNA technology helps solve woman’s murder 25 years later, police say
Niagara police say they’ve solved a 25-year-old murder using DNA and genetic genealogy connecting the death of a Toronto woman to a suspect from Northern Ontario. Homicide investigators say DNA evidence has linked the death of then 26-year-old Nadine Gurczenski with a New Liskeard truck driver who died in 2017. …
Read More »Trial of Winnipeg serial killer expected to hear testimony from DNA expert – Winnipeg
By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 14, 2024 9:03 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Winnipeg trial of admitted serial killer Jeremy Skibicki is expected to continue Tuesday with testimony from a DNA expert. Court has heard that DNA from three of the …
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