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What's in your water?: Disinfectants create toxic by-products

Although perhaps the greatest public health achievement of the 20th century was the disinfection of water, a recent study now shows that the chemicals used to purify the water we drink and use in swimming pools react with ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (17) | comments 7

Endangered horse has ancient origins and high genetic diversity, new study finds

An endangered species of horse -- known as Przewalski's horse -- is much more distantly related to the domestic horse than researchers had previously hypothesized, reports a team of investigators led by Kateryna ...

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers study genetic evolution of African dogs

(PhysOrg.com) -- African village dogs are not a mixture of modern breeds but have directly descended from an ancestral pool of indigenous dogs, according to a Cornell-led genetic analysis of hundreds of semi-feral ...

Biology / Evolution

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Manatee subspecies genetically confirmed, but diversity challenge looms

The first genetic study to compare nuclear DNA of endangered Antillean manatees in Belize with Florida manatees confirmed their designation as separate subspecies. Belize's manatees, however, were found to have extremely ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Genetic changes after Caesarean section may explain increased risk of developing disease

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that babies born by planned Caesarean section experience changes to the DNA pool in their white blood cells, which could be connected to altered stress ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0