Life goes on outside your province
The schoolyard acrobatics of Carles Puigdemont are not only distracting you from the real news that came out of Barcelona ...
Tag: genome
If someone designed us, they weren’t intelligent
Biological evolution is a fact, no matter how much some people try to deny it. The scientific evidence supporting it ...
Largest genetic analysis of colorectal cancer reveals DNA damage caused by tobacco and gut bacteria
Life may depend on a single letter. A person is made up of some 30 trillion cells, which act as ...
By helicopter in search of an invisible world
A helicopter landed on July 5 on the shore of Lake Goter, one of the most remote lakes in the ...
A revolutionary technique rescues intact DNA from a mammoth and brings the resurrection of extinct creatures closer
Anyone would consider it an exceptional adventure to travel through Siberia in search of monstrous prehistoric creatures, emerged from the ...
The mystery of the last mammoths: neither climate, nor humans nor genetics explain their extinction
About 9,200 years ago, when the ice had retreated for several millennia from most of the northern hemisphere, a herd ...
A new technique opens the door to large-scale editing of DNA to cure diseases
Gene editing allows a person's genome to be rewritten to correct errors that cause diseases. This is what has been ...
The largest genome on the planet is found in a small fern
The tree of life has these things. A fern, which may seem like a not too complex organism, turns out ...
How different are the genomes of two different people?
All humans share a huge part of our genome, 99.6%. That means that we are only different in that remaining ...
The black box of thought
One of the biggest problems with artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps the main one of them all, is its black box ...