Tomato genome has now been decoded NEW YORK - The tomato, whose genome has just been decoded, turns out to be one well-endowed vegetable, possessing 31,760 genes.

Tomato genome has now been decoded

NEW YORK - The tomato, whose genome has just been decoded, turns out to be one well-endowed vegetable, possessing 31,760 genes.

Date May 31, 2012

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Tags #Nature    #food    #gardening    #genome    #tomato    #vegetables    #DNA    #garden   

30 years after massacre, family comes together again - Thanks to DNA testing, a Framingham man whose family was slaughtered at the height of the civil war in Guatemala was reunited with his biological father.

30 years after massacre, family comes together again

- Thanks to DNA testing, a Framingham man whose family was slaughtered at the height of the civil war in Guatemala was reunited with his biological father.

Date May 30, 2012

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Tags #Guatemala    #civil war    #Framingham    #DNA    #family    #news   

State Police DNA techniques unlock Mediterranean secrets - A Mass. archeologist is using crime-solving DNA methods to reveal what ancient Greeks carried in the clay pots they stacked in the hulls of ships.

State Police DNA techniques unlock Mediterranean secrets

- A Mass. archeologist is using crime-solving DNA methods to reveal what ancient Greeks carried in the clay pots they stacked in the hulls of ships.

Date January 16, 2012

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Tags #archeology    #ancient greeks    #DNA    #State Police    #amphorae    #shipwrecks