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Why it makes sense to kill baby giraffes (sorry, internet)
Sure, his death was sad. But losing his entire species would be much sadder.
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Ancient baby DNA suggests tie to Native Americans
The DNA of a baby boy who was buried in Montana 12,600 years ago has been recovered, and it provides new indications of the ancient roots of today’s American Indians and other native peoples of the Americas.
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Scientific racism's long history mandates caution
Racism as a social and scientific concept is reshaped and reborn periodically through the ages and according to a Penn State anthropologist, both medical and scientific researchers need to be careful that the growth of genomics does not bring about another resurgence of scientific racism.
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Space Dust Is Filled with Building Blocks for Life
A study of teeny-tiny meteorite fragments revealed that two essential components of life on Earth as we know it, could have migrated to our planet on space dust. Researchers discovered DNA and amino acids components in a smidgen of a space rock that fell over Murchison, Victoria, in Australia in September 1969.
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Montana Boy: Bones Show Ancestral Links to Europe
Despite general resistence, representatives of tribes in the US recently gave their blessing for DNA analysis of the remains of a Stone Age child. Research conducted on the boy's genes indicate that Native Americans have European roots.
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Origin of Deadly Human Malaria Parasite Linked to Primates in Africa, not Asia, as Once Thought
An international team of scientists has traced the origin of Plasmodium vivax, the second-worst malaria parasite of humans, to Africa, according to a study published this week in Nature Communications. Until recently, the closest genetic relatives of human P. vivax were found only in Asian macaques, leading researchers to believe that P. vivax originated in Asia.
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You share 98.7 percent of your DNA with this sex-obsessed ape
Earlier this month, just before the famed creationism debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham, I published an article drawing attention to a stunning piece of evidence in favor of the theory of evolution—one that terrifies creationists. The article received so much attention that a follow-up seemed in order; after all, there's much more where that came from.
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FDA considering 3-parent embryos
A promising way to stop a deadly disease, or an uncomfortable step toward what one leading ethicist called eugenics?
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Fossilized human feces from 14th century contain antibiotic resistance genes
A team of French investigators has discovered viruses containing genes for antibiotic resistance in a fossilized fecal sample from 14th century Belgium, long before antibiotics were used in medicine. They publish their findings ahead of print in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
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Gene Therapy's Second Act
A decade and a half after a series of tragic setbacks led to critical reevaluations, scientists say gene therapy is ready to enter the clinic
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Tutankhamun’s Blood
Why everyone from the Mormons to the Muslim Brotherhood is desperate for a piece of the Pharaoh
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Selfish gene, dead or alive?
I can vividly remember reading The Selfish Gene in my local library as a teenager: it was both a page-turner and something of a conversion experience. Richard Dawkins’s explanation of the unsparing reality of evolution blew like a cold, refreshing wind through everything I thought I knew about human nature, and is one of the great pieces of scientific writing from the last century. I was hardly surprised then, that David Dobbs’s essay ‘Die Selfish Gene’ provoked a...
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Could we live 40 years longer? The gene merchants think so
CRAIG VENTER, the scientist who first mapped the human genome in 2007 and created synthetic life in 2010, announced last week the creation of his new company, Human Longevity Inc, with the stated goal of "extending and enhancing the healthy, high-performance lifespan and change the face of ageing”. His co-founder Peter Diamandis said: "Our goal is to make 100-years-old the new 60."
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Genetic mugshot recreates faces from nothing but DNA
A MURDER has been committed, and all the cops have to go on is a trace of DNA left at the scene. It doesn't match any profile in databases of known criminals, and the trail goes cold. But what if the police could issue a wanted poster based on a realistic "photofit" likeness built from that DNA?
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DNA Mugshots Possible
A study published on March 20, 2014 reports on the possibility of computers to accurately create virtual mugshots of an individual based solely on that person’s DNA. Several scientists from around ...
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Buddha's World of the Arts and Beyond: Mood Gene: What Makes Some People Prone to Depression
Come on in and see the wonders that await!! The mind's eye of an artist sprinkled with explosive knowledge to arouse the senses!!
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Bird’s Extinction Is Tied to the Arrival of Humans
When Maori settlers arrived in New Zealand in the 13th century, they were greeted by some formidable inhabitants: the moa, nine species of flightless birds up to 12 feet tall. The creatures lacked even vestigial wings; they looked like walking bags of feathers with a small head perched on top. The moa were the dominant large herbivores in New Zealand, which had no native mammals, save for bats.
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British experts say they have found London's lost Black Death graves
Archaeologists in Britain said on Sunday they had solved a 660-year-old mystery, citing DNA tests which they said proved they had found a lost burial site for tens of thousands of people killed in medieval London by the "Black Death" plague.
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'Step forward' in skin cancer fight
Scientists say they have taken a step forward in understanding why some people are at greater risk of skin cancer because of their family history.
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Rising Japanese scientist faked heralded stem cell research, lab says
The images of DNA fragments, the lab says, were either doctored or entirely fabricated.
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