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Maybe you can check out few renowned programs which are similar to MDP lab track which goes like this :NYU-ITP (highly entrepreneurial)PARSONS - DT (design & technology)MIT Media Lab (entrepreneurial, harder to get into and experimental playground)Royal College of Art (Innovation Design Engineering & Design Interactions)

Evolution is a fact. We have studied how it happened in the past, watched it happen in labs, tracked its progress in the wild, and used it for our own purposes in biology and engineering. Evolution is a fact as much a fact as the Earth orbiting the Sun.Abiogenesis is the still mostly unanswered question of how did life originally begin, although there are some very insightful hypotheses and some intriguing experiments in that area. Even if somehow (although I cannot imagine how) abiogenesis could be 100% conclusively disproven, it would just mean that the question of how life first arose on Earth would still be unanswered and require new scientific evidence and theories.How life changed, adapted, spread, bifurcated and grew in complexity after that is not at all unanswered. We evolved through the process initially uncovered and explained by Darwin, and then improved upon by others.

Is it safe to give my DNA to ancestry.com? Could someone use my sample to plant evidence against me or say that I was somewhere I wasn't?Yes, it should be fairly safe - I mean, there’s a chance that it could be used in a Mission-Impossible-Scenario, but who has that kind of time and money? Let me explain:When you purchase a DNA testing kit from Ancestry or 32andMe, they’re going to send you a tube to spit in. The tube contains a solution designed to lyse the cells in your spit and stabilize the genetic material for transport. This tube will have a number that was assigned to you by the company. You will then return this tube of spit (containing your DNA and the DNA of any bacteria currently living in your mouth) to the company. The shipping label directing it back to the company will not have any identifying information on it. If your package were intercepted en route, the person who took the sample wouldn’t know who it belonged to. At the laboratory, the number on the tube is accessioned into the lab tracking system, but your personal information would remain hidden - the lab tech only sees the sample number on the tube of spit. As your sample goes through the testing process, it remains anonymous (that is, only the sample number is displayed). At the end, the lab tracking system will assign your results to your account and ping you when they’re ready, but the people in the lab would be completely out of the loop.I suppose an unscrupulous person who could hack the lab tracking system could match your DNA to the sample ID . This would likely be an“inside job” as lab tracking software is usually not connected to the outside world (via internet). They would then have to break into the lab (in most CLIA facilities, access to the lab is restricted and tracked), find your sample (or what was left of it after it was used for testing), and then amplify the DNA (the amount of DNA in a spit sample, while substantial, would still require amplification to be of sufficient quantity). So, now you see why I call it a Mission-Impossible-Scenario. It’s a awful lot of effort when a more simple solution is readily available.If I really wanted your DNA, I don’t have to go through all that jazz. We, as humans, shed DNA - we’re practically giving it away. Brush your hair every morning? More than likely, you’ll leave some nice hair follicles with DNA on the brush. Do you have a cold and need to blow your nose? I’ll just follow you around for a bit and collect the used tissue you threw away in the waste basket. While I haven’t done it myself, I’m told one can extract DNA from used chewing gum. See? DNA everywhere. I would take the sample, amplify the CODIS 13 STRs[1][1][1][1]and then plant the DNA where I wanted to.If anything, your DNA is safer in the hands of an ancestry.com or 23andMe than anywhere else.Footnotes[1] STR analysis - Wikipedia[1] STR analysis - Wikipedia[1] STR analysis - Wikipedia[1] STR analysis - Wikipedia