Press release Thursday, March 25, 2021 What Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered specific regions within the DNA of neurons that accumulate certain types of damage (called single-stranded …
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Mammalian studies have shown that ‘memories’ of various environmental effects, such as diet, weight, and stress, are passed down from parent to child, despite the fact that these states are not encoded …
Read More »Is Neanderthal Covid-19 Genes Good or Bad?
In 2020, researchers claimed that they had discovered a Neanderthal Covid gene that diminished our ability to fight the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19. Now, a new research project in Japan has …
Read More »Scientists have sequenced mammoth DNA that is over a million years old
In a feat at the limit of our scientific capabilities, an international team of geneticists has recovered and sequenced the oldest DNA to date. From the teeth of three ancient mammoths that …
Read More »Mammoth DNA breaks the record for the oldest sequence in the world
Researchers have sequenced the oldest known DNA in the world. Using material from the Early and Middle Pleistocene sub-epochs, the analysis of ancient DNA breaks the record for the oldest sequenced DNA …
Read More »Evidence for Unknown Human Species Found in the DNA of Melanesians
It’s been almost a year since COVID-19 stopped the world. The whole world has been affected, to a degree ranging from nothing to deeply tragic. In March 2020, a few weeks after …
Read More »Highest resolution images of DNA reveal that it is surprisingly wavy
Gif: ALB Payne et al., 2021 / Nature Communications Scientists have captured the highest resolution images of DNA ever taken, revealing twisting and twisting behaviors never seen before. Deoxyribonucleic acid, also known …
Read More »MIT study shows why cancer cells switch to the sluggish process of sugar breakdown
A new study by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found how cancer cells use an unusual process of multiplication. The study, which answers a long-standing mystery on the …
Read More »Scientists have seized the Dyer Wolf DNA. Thanks, science!
Serious Wolves: First Of his name, the last of his kind. Yes, you read that correctly. According to new research published today Nature, Scientists have finally been able to sequence the DNA …
Read More »Identical twins are not perfect clones, research shows
Washington – If you are an identical twin who always opposes being called a clone of your siblings, scientists say you have a point. Genetically identical twins are not identical, new research …
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