Original article from Metro UK and Nature. One romantic tryst in the distant past between a Homo Sapien and a Neanderthal may be to blame for over a million deaths related to the coronavirus. At present, the virus has been responsible for 6.3 million deaths worldwide.[...]
Article courtesy of Science For DNA sequencing, this “is the year of the big shake-up,” says Michael Snyder, a systems biologist at Stanford University. Sequencing is crucial to fields from basic biology to virology to human evolution, and its importance keeps growing. Clinicians are clamoring to[...]
Original article seen in STAT News Jennifer Doudna reflects on the DNA scissors’ first decade n June 28, 2012, a joint press release went out from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announcing a new paper in Science from an international[...]
Original article from DW A majority of the DNA that has been sequenced for research comes from donors of European ancestry. That causes a knowledge gap about the genome of people from the rest of the world. Among various things that unite humans around the world,[...]
Original article from The Washington Post The no-covid club gets more exclusive every day. And some members have no idea how they’re still there. Joe and Susannah Altman are serious poker players. Sometimes, when they play in tournaments, they’ll place what’s called a “Last Longer” bet[...]
Article courtesy of ArstechnicaFor now, salmon, nuts are not eligible for "healthy" label, but sugary cereals are. The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday proposed a long-awaited revision to the definition of the term "healthy" on food packaging—finally scrapping the mind-boggling criteria from the 1990s[...]
Article courtesy of National GeographicScientists have discovered eight key proteins—also found in people—that help keep grizzly bears diabetes free. If a human ate tens of thousands of calories a day, ballooned in size, then barely moved for months, the health outcomes would be catastrophic. Scientists have[...]
Article courtesy of Bloomberg News About 20 years ago, mapping out a person’s genes cost about $100 million. It will soon cost $200. Illumina, the main company behind the machines that interpret genetic code, says its latest model can produce faster, more accurate results at about[...]
Article courtesy of LiveScience.com North American migratory birds are becoming smaller as the planet warms due to climate change, a new study finds. Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) examined more than 30 years of data for adult male birds across 105 avian[...]
Article courtesy of the New York Times Nearly 30 million people in the United States — and probably many others whose illnesses were never diagnosed — have been infected with the coronavirus so far. Should these people still be vaccinated? Two new studies answer that[...]
Article courtesy of the NIH and PubMed Abstract Background: Mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNAcn) in tissues and blood can be altered in conditions like diabetes and major depression and may play a role in aging and longevity. However, little is known about the association between mtDNAcn[...]
Article courtesy of The GuardianAs the world’s top human genome editing researchers gather in London, the ethical issues posed by pioneering scientific advances will be high on their agenda. The name He Jiankui is not listed as a registered delegate for the Third International Summit on[...]
Original article courtesy of Technology Networks Parenting behavior is deeply linked to the ability to empathize with one’s children. Thus, to better understand why certain parents react to certain situations in a certain way, it is crucial to gain insight into how empathy is shaped. Scientists[...]
Article courtesy of Salon Prominent scientists in different fields say that there are clues that life could have started on the red planetOn February 18, NASA's Perseverance rover will parachute through thin Martian air, marking a new era in red planet exploration. Landing on the Jezero[...]
Article courtesy of Business Insider The story begins with the Aztec God of death and lightning, the Xolotl. As legends have it, he was a monstrous dog that guarded the sun god and ushered souls to the underworld every night. One day, as Gods began sacrificing[...]
Article courtesy of Ars Technica She severs sea slugs down by the seashore... or rather, Sayaka Mitoh does so in the lab.At least two species of sacoglossan sea slugs are capable of severing their own heads from their bodies and then growing an entirely new body,[...]
Article courtesy of The Guardian ~ Did you know that tomatoes respond to a high C note? Or that the prickly pear made red fabric popular, and yams helped create the contraceptive pill? Often beautiful, sometimes deadly, but constantly ingenious, plants are the sources of[...]
Article courtesy of National Geographic Rocks from deep inside the Chicxulub impact crater show what happened in the minutes to hours after one of our planet’s most catastrophic events.Inch by inch, the team pulled up the skinny core of ghostly white limestone from the ocean floor,[...]
Please click THIS LINK to access the paper.The attached white paper was published by the Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy. It is written by Lori Marino and Michael Mountain. Lori is the Founder and Executive Director of The Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy and of the[...]
Article originally appeared in the Guardian CDC study finds glyphosate, controversial ingredient found in weedkillers including popular Roundup brand, present in samples. More than 80% of urine samples drawn from children and adults in a US health study contained a weedkilling chemical linked to cancer, a[...]
Article courtesy of Nature Social contacts throughout a person’s lifetime seed the body with microbes that could influence health and disease. People living in the same household share more than just a roof (and pints of milk). Be they family or flatmate, housemates tend to have[...]
Article courtesy of TreeHugger Say what? Plants emit high-frequency sounds comparable in volume to normal human conversation.Imagine if your houseplant was thirsty, and it could tell you so. Chances are, it can—you just can't hear it. At least according to findings from researchers in Israel, who[...]
Article courtesy of National Geographic Research on the health of former lab animals shows that for chimpanzees, and probably for people, “it’s not physical activity, but inactivity, that makes us frail.” When Auntie Rose died in early 2007, she was the oldest wild chimpanzee known to[...]
Article courtesy of ScienceMag.com One mouse is hunched over, graying, and barely moves at 7 months old. Others, at 11 months, have sleek black coats and run around. The videos and other results from a new study have inspired hope for treating children born with progeria,[...]
Article courtesy of The Guardian After Coors sought to steer unconscious minds to thoughts of beer, scientists have called for curbs on ‘targeted dream incubation’ When brewing giant Coors launched a new advertising campaign earlier this year, the format came as a surprise to many. The[...]