Gallery: If Your DNA Were a Scarf, This Is What It'd Look Like
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Dot One is a company that makes design objects from your DNA.
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A quick swab of the cheek provides enough of a sample to create glitchy representations of a human’s DNA on scarves, posters, and family trees.
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Ingelsby’s team outsources its DNA profiling to a genetic testing lab called AlphaBiolabs. There, lab techs scan submitted DNA samples for stretches of genetic code called Short Tandem Repeats, or STRs
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AlphaBiolabs examines 23 STRs from each genetic sequence that it analyzes, to create a fingerprint it claims can distinguish any individual from everyone else on Earth. Dot One then gives every STR in your genetic fingerprint a numerical value, based on its molecular characteristics, and that number is assigned a color.
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This what produces a pattern that's unique to you.
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Unless you happen to be an identical twin.
