From Ireland to the Balkans, Europeans are basically one big family, closely related to one another for the past thousand years, according to a new study of the DNA of people from across the continent.
Biotechnology
May 7, 2013
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When Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) marine paleoecologist Marco Coolen was mining through vast amounts of genetic data from the Black Sea sediment record, he was amazed about the variety of past plankton species ...
Earth Sciences
May 6, 2013
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(Phys.org) —An Arizona State University biologist and her team have found that the Asian subspecies of great bustard, one of the heaviest birds capable of flight, covers migratory routes of more than 2,000 miles, travelling ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 17, 2013
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The sweet orange, Citrus sinensis, has long dominated fruit production worldwide. Yet attempts to study this fruit's genetics and improve its desirable traits have proved difficult because it reproduces asexually and seedlings ...
Biotechnology
Apr 10, 2013
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Scientists at Mainz University develop a novel screening procedure for accurately determining the amount of animal, plant, and microbial substances in foods
Biotechnology
Mar 27, 2013
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Scientists have identified two new species of mouse lemur, the saucer-eyed, teacup-sized primates native to the African island of Madagascar.
Plants & Animals
Mar 26, 2013
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At the end of the last ice age, a population of polar bears was stranded by the receding ice on a few islands in southeastern Alaska. Male brown bears swam across to the islands from the Alaskan mainland and mated with female ...
Biotechnology
Mar 14, 2013
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A new genetic analysis of human lice from across the world sheds light on the global spread of these parasites, their potential for disease transmission and insecticide resistance. The results are published February 27 in ...
Other
Feb 27, 2013
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A genome-wide analysis searching for evidence of long-lived balancing selection—where the evolutionary process acts not to select the single best adaptation but to maintain genetic variation in a population—has uncovered ...
Biotechnology
Feb 14, 2013
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What patterns exist in the evolutionary design of living things? What particular processes produced these patterns? And how might this information be used to untangle the complexities of health and disease, coded in human ...
Evolution
Feb 8, 2013
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