by DDC Development | Feb 28, 2013 | DNA test
On Valentine’s Day, a woman in Texas gave birth to two sets of identical twins. While 3 out of every 1000 births involve identical twins, the odds of delivering two sets of naturally occurring identical twins (that is, without the use of fertility treatments) is...
by DDC Development | Feb 25, 2013 | Press Releases, Science and Technology
DDC Medical, a division of DNA Diagnostics Center, has signed a distribution deal with Fisher Scientific, a leading global supplier of Life Sciences equipment and services, to offer cell line authentication and Mycoplasma detection services to researchers in North...
by DDC Development | Feb 14, 2013 | Science and Technology
This Valentine’s week at DDC, we’re taking time out from the usual to discuss the topic of DNA compatibility. This topic was brought to national attention a few years ago by a landmark “sweaty t-shirt study.” In the experiment, men were asked...
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,...
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”...