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Stone Age Britons Were Eating Wheat 2,000 Years Before They Farmed It
Scientists have recovered cultivated wheat DNA from an 8,000-year-old submerged site off the British coast. The finding suggests hunter-gatherers were trading for the grain long before they grew it.
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This Bad-Boy Geneticist Wants to Clone a Mammoth
Hwang Woo-Suk the bad boy of genetics. He’s most famous for falsely claiming to have cloned human stem cells. This is, you can imagine, very bad in science. Yet last week, the South Korean researcher was in Siberia, drilling cells from the bones of a 28,000 year-old frozen wooly mammoth. The bones are the only place Hwang is going to find the DNA he needs to bring a mammoth back to life.
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US to exhume remains of Pearl Harbor dead for identification
The remains of nearly 400 US servicemen killed at Pearl Harbor are to be exhumed so they may be identified and buried individually.
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Controversial Gene-Editing Approach Gains Ground
“Snipping out” damaged mitochondrial DNA in mice and human cells is a step toward preventing serious inherited diseases
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Depression Can Physically Alter Your DNA
Depression doesn’t just change your mentality—it also leaves marks on your DNA, report scientists from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (WTCHG). The finding was so surprising that the scientists initially met it with skepticism and admit that they required a substantial amount of convincing to believe it was not merely a coincidence.
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Artificial DNA links up just like the real thing
TWO artificial DNA "letters" can link up just like the natural versions, paving the way for incorporating the newcomers into living cells. Synthetic biologists are racing to come up with artificial versions of the building blocks of life. "We have been basically reinventing the genetic alphabet from the bottom up," says Steven Benner of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Alachua, Florida. Hopes for such fake DNA range from developing new drugs to creating artificial life.
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Reprogramming of DNA observed in human germ cells for first time
A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge has described for the first time in humans how the epigenome – the suite of molecules attached to our DNA that switch our genes on and off – is comprehensively erased in early primordial germ cells prior to the generation of egg and sperm...
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Amazon and Google want to get your DNA into the cloud
It's a business that may be worth $1 billion a year by 2018.
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DNA reignites Kennewick Man debate
DNA tests show an ancient skeleton known as Kennewick Man is related to modern Native Americans - reigniting a debate over whether his bones should be returned to local tribes and reburied.
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Gene-swapping means you have alien DNA inside you
Normally genes get passed down from parents to their young. But sometimes they can jump around, moving from one species to another
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How DNA protects itself from UV light
Using X-rays, scientists measured the ultrafast response of DNA nucleobases to UV light. They found that the UV excited state in the nucleobase thymine decays rapidly, harmlessly dissipating the potentially destructive UV energy. The findings give new insight on how the nucleobases inside DNA protect themselves from light-induced damage.
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Gene Therapy for Deafness Moves a Few Steps Closer
Gene therapy for deafness is moving closer to reality, with new research on Wednesday showing the technique for fixing faulty DNA can improve responses in mice with genetic hearing loss.
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Scientists rush to freeze plant DNA before 'sixth extinction'
As the world enters into a sixth great extinction, scientists are racing against the clock to save genetic evidence from plants around the world. An ambitious project launched Wednesday to collect the genomes of the planet's major plant groups within the next two years and put them into deep freeze. The project is part of the Global Genome Initiative, which aims to gather and preserve the DNA of all life on Earth in cryo-storage facilities.
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The boys who could see England
Last winter, two bodies in identical wetsuits were found in Norway and the Netherlands. Police in three countries failed to identify them — and then the trail led to Calais. By Anders Fjellberg.
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DNA Reveals These Red-Haired Chinese Mummies Come From Europe And Asia
Within a nondescript Bronze Age cemetery first discovered by Swedish archaeologists in 1934 and rediscovered by the Xinjiang Archaeological Institute in 2000, researchers have found the oldest and best-preserved mummies in the Tarim Basin area of China. Their skeletal remains, along with unprecedented artifacts, are helping solve the longstanding question of the origins of human settlement in a politically contested area of China.
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Mysterious link emerges between Native Americans and people half a globe away
Traces of Australo-Melanesian ancestry in some Native Americans could shed light on the peopling of the Americas. By Michael Balter .
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DNA uncovers mystery migration to the Americas
Two separate genetic analyses have found evidence for a surprising genetic link between the native populations of the Americas and Oceania.
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Researchers folded DNA into the shape of a nanoscale bunny
Folding DNA into the shape of a tiny bunny rabbit is now easier than ever, according to a study published in Nature today. Folding DNA isn’t new — it’s known as DNA origami — but automating the process is...
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These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could Be Worth Billions
Drug companies are exploiting rare mutations that make one person nearly immune to pain
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At Tiny Scales, a Giant Burst on Tree of Life
A new technique for finding and characterizing microbes has boosted the number of known bacteria by almost 50 percent, revealing a hidden world all around us. By Kevin Hartnett.
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