DNA
How a grieving mother helped create a DNA database to identify Canada’s missing
After Judy Peterson’s daughter disappeared 27 years ago, she poured herself into a campaign to create the more integrated, country-wide DNA database. Here’s how it led to a Quebec mother finding her son.
Families betrayed by their own genes
Two books explore the DNA mutations that made two families highly susceptible to diseases like cancer and schizophrenia
Meet the ‘water bear,’ the world’s toughest animal
Everything about the tardigrade, or ‘water bear,’ sounds like a riddle
Ottawa moves to stop genetic discrimination
Peter MacKay is trying to confront a 21st century issue, but when it comes to laws protecting DNA information, Canada’s still a wild frontier
On the ethics and anguish of the CRISPR craze
Editorial: Genetic research may be speeding ahead in China, but the human genome still has a trick or two up its sleeve
Identifying Pearl Harbor’s unknown sailors
An anthropologist explains the significance of an effort to exhume the remains of those killed on the USS Oklahoma
Junk DNA: How much of our genetic material pulls its weight?
Science can’t decide if our genes have more or less value than the Baldwin brothers
Case closed: the skeleton really is Richard III
“The evidence is overwhelming that these are the remains,” says the lead scientist
The Xenotext: Creating the poetry bug
After 11 years and $120,000 in research, Christian Bök has put words to DNA
RCMP ties three ‘Highway of Tears’ cold cases to dead Oregon man
Bobby Jack Fowler incriminated by ‘the oldest DNA match in Interpol’s history’
Proving his worth as Diefenbaker’s son
Finally, George Dryden has real evidence that he’s related to former PM
Detection in two seconds
A new high-tech spittoon collects DNA from saliva, making medical research less invasive