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Seeing DNA, and seeing Rosalind Franklin
Much of this project looks at how people visualise DNA. In the main this means the ways that consumers of DNA testing might conceive of themselves in relation to a ‘model’ or structure of a double-helix. So I’m really interested, for instance, in the phenomenon of...
DNA advertising
As outlined in the linked blog on Family History Live events, I became very interested in the way that the companies were presenting themselves in this forum. I kept a few flyers to look over the ways that the services were selling themselves. These are small...
Family History LIVE
In October I was in Dublin where I visited the Back to Our Past event that was held at the Royal Dublin Society buildings. This is a huge event, sponsored by Ancestry, attached to an even wider fair presenting a whole range of products and services aimed at retired...
Blog: DNA testing goes popular (and daytime)
In this clip from his late night TV show on the 6 October, the comedian Stephen Colbert look at the rapidly expanding market for direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTCGT). Colbert points out how direct to consumer genetic testing is ‘big business’, expected to be...
Blog: Academic Grandparent on Twitter
Last week I found an interesting site where Mathematicians were listed according to their doctoral supervisor. The Mathematics Genealogy project was designed to record information about the way that knowledge is transmitted and provokes an interesting conversation...
Images from Family History Workshop – feedback and discussion
These are the raw images of the discussion and feedback boards from the workshop. I'll be looking at individual discussions in the next week, but for now here they unvarnished! Related Contact Us +44 (0) 161 306 6000 Find Us The University...
Blog 2: DNA and national identity
In July 2016 The Telegraph ran an article entitled ‘How British Are You?’ The article reported an Ancestry.com study that looked at 15000 users of its DNA sequencing service. Amongst other things the study looked for DNA matches with ‘Anglo-Saxon’, and this is the...
Blog 1: starting out, Marmite, Ancestry events
This is the first week I’ve written this blog, although the Double Helix History project began on the 1 September. I’ve mainly been working things out like websites, Twitter feeds, and various bits of admin. I’ve written a blog for Ancestry about forthcoming events,...
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