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minus-squarelurker_supreme [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agotheres probably no way to get a non-contaminated sample of dna from literal shit. i am just talking out of my ass though, i’m not a scatologist
minus-squarenednobbins@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoWhy not? It doesn’t need to be clean, just unique to the individual.
minus-squarelurker_supreme [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-23 days agotheres a trillion bacteria in there, how would you separate the human dna from the bacteria dna e: it turns out you can get dna from poop, at least from what I saw from googling. crazy stuff
minus-squarenednobbins@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoI think there are at least two basic techniques. You can isolate the human DNA and that will generally be isolated to a single person (ignoring amorous encounters). Or you could profile the entire gut biom.
theres probably no way to get a non-contaminated sample of dna from literal shit. i am just talking out of my ass though, i’m not a scatologist
Why not? It doesn’t need to be clean, just unique to the individual.
theres a trillion bacteria in there, how would you separate the human dna from the bacteria dna
e: it turns out you can get dna from poop, at least from what I saw from googling. crazy stuff
I think there are at least two basic techniques. You can isolate the human DNA and that will generally be isolated to a single person (ignoring amorous encounters). Or you could profile the entire gut biom.