The Associated Press reported today that a food distributor in Virginia will start tracking their beef from farm to table by monitoring a DNA tag. The technique has already been used in Europe, but people certainly have high-hopes for its utility in the US:
Read MoreAs a follow up to the post I did yesterday ("King Tut's Parents Were What?"), I thought I'd talk more about genetic testing on dead people. Science News ran a story today saying that Sitting Bull, of Little Big Horn upset/General Custer demise fame, will be "the first ancient, non-frozen Native American to have his genome sequenced."
Read MoreSome 3000 years after his death, King Tut is finally airing his dirty laundry. New DNA evidence suggests that Tutankhamen's parents were actually brother and sister.
The fascinating tale of the experiments that proved this, along with a detailed family tree of Tut can be found on National Geographic's website.
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