How Accurate are Those Dog DNA Tests? Insights and Challenges in Decoding DNA

by Joshua | Feb 15, 2018 | contents, contents

1. Stanford University School of Medicine; 2. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard For a purebred dog and, on occasion, even a first-generation hybrid, breed-inference services often just confirm what the dog owner already knows. Sometimes a pedigree is available,...

How Do You Spell Behavior? At Darwin’s Dogs, We Use Gs, Cs, Ts, and As.

by Joshua | Oct 1, 2016 | Other Topics, October 2016, Sciences

There are approximately 3 billion bases—represented by the letters G, C, T, or A—in a dog genome. A majority of these are the same across all dogs—these are the bits of DNA that make your dog a dog. But what makes your dog an individual? What makes your dog different...