High school students explore urban environment with DNA
What sorts of DNA can be found in an urban environment? Last year I helped supervise Trinity High School students Brenda Tan and Matt Cost in an investigation of New…
What sorts of DNA can be found in an urban environment? Last year I helped supervise Trinity High School students Brenda Tan and Matt Cost in an investigation of New…
…viewed as one species, and it is not morphologically evident which of them matches the holotype” and as “a cost-effective way of building barcode libraries with broad geographical coverage”. They…
Over the past year PHE researcher Mark Stoeckle supervised Trinity High School students Brenda Tan and Matt Cost in an investigation of NYC homes, sidewalks, and markets with DNA barcoding.Their…
On January 15, WNYC’s Mike Pesca interviewed Jesse and Trinity students Brenda Tan and Matt Cost about their DNAHouse. Their lively, live interview can be downloaded as a podcast from…
…will be excessively costly or risky unless we can build expert and public confidence through simulations. For strawberries, albeit modified with modern genetic means, field tests are hard enough. Before…
…than bread or milk, or most anything that costs more than one ruble. I tried to buy a record. I was not succeeding. Finally somebody in the line spoke in…
Fox TV reported 23 February 2010 in their evening news on the discoveries of the DNA House project of Brenda Tan and Matt Cost in a well-composed video by reporter…
…molecular methods such as DNA barcoding for efficient, cost-effective birdstrike identifications”. Just as in CSI television series, DNA-based identification can make possible what would otherwise be impossible; in this case,…
Our high school DNA study with Brenda Tan and Matt Cost was the lead item in front-page article on “food fraud†in Washington Post on March 30, 2010. In addition…
…the uncertainty inherent in any identification method. Even “gold standard” tests have error rates. Just as a medical laboratory considers a range of factors when adopting a new test method–cost,…