Scientists have discovered a molecular marker for sex determination in sturgeon within the international project STURGEoNOMICS, led by the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB). This discovery ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 24, 2020
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In a little more than a decade, samples of rover-scooped Martian soil will rocket to Earth.
Space Exploration
Sep 15, 2020
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When anthropologist Caroline Arcini and her colleagues at the Swedish Natural Historical Museum discovered small calcifications in the extremely well-preserved lungs of Bishop Peder Winstrup, they knew more investigation ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 17, 2020
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The world needs a new international protected area target based on scientific evidence, according to a team including University of Queensland scientists.
Ecology
Apr 11, 2019
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Most arrests in sexual assault cases occur before crime laboratory results are available, a new study found, suggesting that DNA testing may influence arrests in just a small number of cases.The paper is among the first studies ...
Social Sciences
May 23, 2017
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All states should have laws ensuring that criminal justice systems properly handle, store and retain forensic biological evidence, according to a new report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. NIST's ...
Other
Apr 21, 2015
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New research suggests pre-Homo human ancestral species, such as Australopithecus africanus, used human-like hand postures much earlier than was previously thought.
Archaeology
Jan 22, 2015
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Over the past 20 years DNA evidence has become the foundation upon which forensic investigation is built. The identification of traces of blood, saliva and other bodily fluids places a suspect directly at the site of a crime, ...
Biotechnology
Aug 15, 2014
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A team led by Chris Sullivan, a professor of molecular biosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has provided the first positive evidence that RNA interference (RNAi), a biological process in which small RNA molecules ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 15, 2013
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Humans originated in Africa. But what route did they take as they began to disperse around the world 60,000 years ago? A new professor at the University of Huddersfield has played a key role in finding the answer to one ...
Archaeology
Aug 12, 2013
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