DNA from old skeleton suggests humanity’s been here longer than we thought0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- October 5, 2017
There are a lot of caveats, but a Stone Age genome makes humanity look old.
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Robot made from a DNA strand could deliver cargo in your blood0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 16, 2017
You won’t read about a smaller robot than this one any time soon.
Natural Selection is Still Happening in Modern Human Populations, Major Genetic Study Finds0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 9, 2017
Genetic variants linked to Alzheimer’s disease and heavy smoking are less frequent in people with longer lifespans, suggesting that natural selection is weeding out these unfavorable variants in some populations, according to an analysis of the genomes of 210,000 people in the U.S. and UK.
Only 10-25% of Human Genome is Functional, New Estimate Says0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 30, 2017
In a paper published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, University of Houston Professor Dan Graur says that the functional portion of the human genome probably falls between 10% and 15%, with an upper limit of 25%. These figures are very different from one (about 80%) given in 2012 by the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, but more optimistic than the 2014 estimate (8.2%) by Rands et al.
New DNA From a Neanderthal Bone Holds Evidence of a Lost Tribe of Humans0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 25, 2017
We’ve been swapping DNA for a long time.
Why Am I Neanderthal?0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- August 25, 2017
When our ancestors first migrated out of Africa around 60,000 years ago, they were not alone. At that time, at least two other species of hominid cousins walked the Eurasian landmass—Neanderthals and Denisovans.
Evidence of a ‘Vanished’ Civilisation May Have Been Rediscovered in The US0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 11, 2017
Their descendants live on.
Scientists build DNA from scratch to alter life’s blueprint0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 28, 2017
At Jef Boeke’s lab, you can whiff an odor that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here.
The Human Genome Was Never Completely Sequenced0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 20, 2017
The effort completed in 2003 used the best technology available but now scientists could do more
Researchers used CRISPR to encode a movie into DNA0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 13, 2017
Genome GIFs.
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