Environmental DNA Floating in the Air Tracks Wildlife, Viruses — Even Drugs
UF researcher David Duffy has demonstrated the power of environmental DNA vacuumed from the air to detect everything from elusive wildlife to illicit drugs, highlighting its vast potential for science and public health.
Human DNA Is Everywhere. That’s a Boon for Science – And an Ethical Quagmire.
We cough, spit, shed and flush our DNA into all of these places and countless more. Signs of human life can be found nearly everywhere, short of isolated islands and remote mountaintops, according to a new University of Florida study. That ubiquity is both a scientific boon and an ethical dilemma, say the UF researchers who sequenced this widespread DNA.
