How to Use DNA in a Sentence

DNA

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  • There was also no gunshot residue on Ecker, and his DNA was not found on the gun.
    — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The next steps involved testing the DNA of living relatives to confirm the match.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
  • That’s a nod to that movie, which inspired a lot of the DNA of our movie.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024
  • So there is something to be said about the DNA and the risk appetite.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The rareness and the discretion are an important part of the DNA of Cristaseya.
    — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2023
  • These stem cells are edited with exa-cel in the lab to delete the snippet of DNA that causes the cells to warp.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • But in 2009, DNA testing on saliva from bite marks on her body linked Lazarus to the crime.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • If there is a DNA match, the families can take the bodies home with them.
    — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • But there was also a lot of reality in the DNA, which was set in the first shows.
    — Monica Kim, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Some of us, the lucky ones, live and die without ever knowing about the poison in our DNA.
    — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Brewer asked for his right to a lawyer when he was told DNA was found at the scene of a murder, police said.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The new species was identified by its eyelids, scale pattern and DNA, the study said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2024
  • But that changed after del Orbe got results from his DNA test.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The test works by looking for cancer signals from DNA shed by tumors in the blood stream.
    — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 23 May 2024
  • But the odds of all of them succeeding on their playing field of choice is high given their DNA.
    — USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • The turning point came this year with DNA testing, police say.
    — Jay Croft, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Due to heavy rain that fell earlier, police were unable to process the car for DNA.
    — cleveland, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Telomeres are caps found at the ends of chromosomes that protect DNA.
    — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health, 19 June 2024
  • But, for about seventy per cent of the victims, the experts needed DNA.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The researchers confirmed the shrimp was a new species using DNA collected from its leg, according to the study.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
  • One hair on Waterman … comes back to his wife, or the DNA profiles are consistent.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Spinach also contains 45% of the daily need of folate, a B vitamin that helps form red blood cells and DNA.
    — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • And would your father be expected to contribute his DNA to this process?
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The crime lab processed several items from the bag for fingerprints and DNA, Wilson said.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2023
  • Aside from collecting footage, the team intends to obtain water samples to test for DNA of the mammals present in the region.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The affidavit for the warrant to obtain his DNA claimed it was found near the body, which was untrue, a lie that Radner says might have kept it from the trial.
    — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2024
  • So far, that effort has identified three men based on DNA extracted from the bones.
    — CBS News, 22 May 2024
  • Blood samples collected at the scene matched Wheeler's DNA.
    — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2024
  • Ellison found members of the man’s family in Ohio and compared their DNA to the evidence.
    — Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
  • The thing that Elizabeth spent her 20s and 30s struggling with has been baked into his DNA, which takes away any real character arc.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023

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