“The walnut will crack but the window won’t”

INSIDE all of us lies a secret history; the story of an immense journey told by our DNA — the biochemical molecule at the heart of the reproduction of all life.

“The walnut will crack but the window won’t”

From a simple saliva sample, scientists can now trace our early ancestry over many thousands of years and answer the fundamental question — where do we come from?

Since the discovery of its structure in 1953, scientists have pieced together the epic narrative of DNA.

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