Human aging may have been influenced by millions of years of dinosaur domination according to a new theory from a leading aging expert. The 'longevity bottleneck' hypothesis has been proposed by Professor Joao Pedro de Magalhaes ...
Evolution
Nov 29, 2023
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Genes are encoded in DNA, and closely related species will often have the same genes in the same order in the genome. However, over millions of years of evolution, this shared gene order gets lost as the DNA gets broken, ...
Biotechnology
May 18, 2021
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The common view of heredity is that all information passed down from one generation to the next is stored in an organism's DNA. But Antony Jose, associate professor of cell biology and molecular genetics at the University ...
Biotechnology
Apr 22, 2020
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If "Why?" is the first question in science, "Why not?" must be a close second. Sometimes it's worth thinking about why something does not exist.
Evolution
Oct 2, 2019
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The color of dinosaurs is a fascinating topic, and in recent years the discovery of melanosomes - small, pigment-filled sacs - associated with fossilized dinosaur feathers has given rise to all sorts of speculation about ...
Archaeology
Oct 5, 2015
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Important advances in the understanding of DNA topoisomerases are discussed in a new review led by John Innes Centre researchers.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 16, 2021
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Crabs are living the meme life on social media lately. The memes joke that everything will eventually look like a crab. But it's actually based in some truth.
Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2021
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The tsetse fly is an exception to the almost universal law of nature that babies are born smaller than their mothers.
Plants & Animals
Nov 4, 2020
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How new species are created is at the very core of the theory of evolution. The reigning theory is that physically separated populations of one species drift apart gradually.
Evolution
Jul 26, 2016
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"This 'rotation model', which made the cover of BioEssays, represents a true paradigm shift in the membrane receptor field," stated Prof. Pierre De Meyts, a renowned researcher of insulin and receptor binding for almost half ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 29, 2015
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