{"id":112612,"date":"2009-12-29T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2162284"},"modified":"2009-12-29T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T00:35:00","slug":"teens-turn-into-dna-detectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/112612","title":{"rendered":"Teens turn into DNA detectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=textBodyBlack><br \/>\n<DIV align=left><br \/>\n<TABLE id=table1 width=298 align=right><br \/>\n<TBODY><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD>&nbsp;<\/TD><br \/>\n<TD><IMG border=1 src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/091229-coslog-cockroach-hmed-830a.standard.jpg\" width=298 height=247><BR><br \/>\n<DIV align=right><FONT size=1 face=Tahoma align=\"right\">Brenda Tan and Matt Cost via Rockefeller Univ.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD>&nbsp;<\/TD><br \/>\n<TD><FONT size=1 face=Verdana align=\"left\">A cockroach found during a DNA barcoding survey&nbsp; may represent a new species or subspecies.<BR><br \/>\n<HR><br \/>\n<\/FONT><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/DIV><br \/>\n<P class=textBodyBlack>When high-school students did an inventory of the DNA in their own homes, they were amazed to find lots of mislabeled food products, a pesky invasive species &#8230; and what appears to be a new breed of cockroach.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&#8220;The idea was to explore our environment through the lens of DNA,&#8221; Matt Cost, an 18-year-old senior at Manhattan&#8217;s Trinity School, told me. The <A href=\"http:\/\/phe.rockefeller.edu\/barcode\/dnahouse.html\">experiment<\/A> turned up more than 150 usable DNA fingerprints, found in common items ranging from apartment-building bugs to a feather duster.<\/P>&#8230;(<a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2009\/12\/29\/2162284.aspx\">read more<\/a>)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2162284\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Brenda Tan and Matt Cost via Rockefeller Univ. &nbsp; A cockroach found during a DNA barcoding survey&nbsp; may represent a new species or subspecies. When high-school students did an inventory of the DNA in their own homes, they were amazed to find lots of mislabeled food products, a pesky invasive species &#8230; and what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}