Chimpanzees have an ancient common ancestor—or genetic 'Adam'—that lived over one million years ago, according to University of Leicester geneticists.
Plants & Animals
Feb 25, 2016
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CRISPR-Cas9's popularity continues to grow ever since its first use in genome editing in January, 2013. What makes CRISPR-Cas9 so remarkable is its astonishing efficiency and availability; relatively speaking, it is easy ...
Biotechnology
Feb 5, 2016
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Indigenous Arabs are direct descendants of humans who migrated out of Africa, before others continued on to colonize Europe and Asia, according to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City and Qatar. In addition ...
Archaeology
Feb 5, 2016
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today announced that authors of manuscripts posted on its preprint server bioRxiv can now submit their papers directly to several leading research journals, avoiding the need for reloading ...
Other
Jan 15, 2016
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Chromosomes are structures inside cell nuclei that carry a large part of the genetic information and are responsible for its storage, transfer and implementation. Chromosomes are formed from a very long DNA molecule—a double ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 24, 2015
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The source of any life involves the duplication (or replication) of DNA, a mechanism that is essential to cell division. A team of biologists has recently performed the most exhaustive analysis to date of thousands of sites ...
Biotechnology
Nov 12, 2015
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Dr. Eric Mendenhall, assistant professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has discovered a new way of locating the genetic "switches" on specific points on DNA, called enhancers, that control when a gene ...
Biotechnology
Oct 26, 2015
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Research carried out by scientists from The University of Western Australia, the University of Oxford and University College London will help better understand how light detection works in vertebrates.
Plants & Animals
Oct 16, 2015
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New York University biologists, in collaboration with scientists at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, have identified a mechanism that promotes activation of genes critical for the initiation of embryonic development.
Biotechnology
Sep 29, 2015
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Analysis of an ancient pathogen of horses shows that it went through a major population replacement during the global conflicts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and has shed light on the genetics of low diversity ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 31, 2015
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