Professor David Balding

Director, Melbourne Integrative Genomics; School of BioSciences and School of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

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Sciences & Technology

What are we doing to our dogs?

Designer dogs, selective breeding, clones and intensive breeding are having unintended effects on the health and wellbeing of man’s best friend - so is our love of pups actually bad for them in the long run?

Sciences & Technology

How convincing is a Y-chromosome profile match?

A new way of presenting Y chromosome evidence in court clarifies the sometimes misleading DNA arguments used in sexual assault cases

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