Humans have been always on the move, creating a complex history of languages and cultural traditions dispersed over the globe. An international team under UZH's lead has now traced families of related languages over more ...
Social Sciences
Aug 18, 2021
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The extraordinary ability of animals to rapidly evolve in response to predators has been demonstrated via genetic sequencing of a waterflea population across nearly two decades.
Plants & Animals
Jul 14, 2021
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A team of geneticists and archeologists from Ireland, France, Iran, Germany, and Austria has sequenced the DNA from a 1,600-year-old sheep mummy from an ancient Iranian salt mine, Chehrābād. This remarkable specimen has ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 13, 2021
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There is less genetic variation in the South than in the rest of Norway. Rogaland, Agder and Telemark have seen surprisingly little migration over the last couple of hundred years, according to a new genetic study that is ...
Evolution
Jun 23, 2021
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Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have described a potential disease-causing mechanism in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the most frequent hereditary disease of the heart. The ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 10, 2021
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Scientists from the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University have developed a method that allows them to see, with far greater accuracy, how DNA forms large scale structures within a cell nucleus.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 10, 2021
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Scientists have proposed that males and females started to become more similar in size and shape after the origin of farming due to natural selection. However, a new evolutionary and genomic analysis by George Perry of Pennsylvania ...
Evolution
Jun 3, 2021
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Human-driven global change is challenging the scientific community to understand how marine species might adapt to predicted environmental conditions in the near-future (e.g. hypoxia, ocean warming, and ocean acidification). ...
Evolution
May 27, 2021
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When researchers at ETH Zurich compared the reference genomes between several breeds of domestic cattle and closely related wild cattle, they discovered genes with previously unknown functions.
Molecular & Computational biology
May 26, 2021
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A recent study led by Dr. Tan Zheng from the Institute of Zoology (IOZ) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) revealed that single nucleotide variations (SNVs) in human genomes interact with DNA motifs that can form four-stranded ...
Biotechnology
May 24, 2021
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