Researchers reconstruct oldest human genome in South Africa
The genetic sequence comes from a man and a woman whose remains were found at Oakhurst Rock Shelter near the ...
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Human genomes of two people who lived 10,000 years ago reconstructed
Researchers have reconstructed the oldest human genomes ever found in South Africa, from two individuals who lived about 10,000 years ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 DNA of 250,000 people illuminates the most hidden effect of poverty
About a decade ago, many people encountered a terrifying diagnosis: they had genetic mutations that increased their risk of suffering ...
Prehistoric migrations explain the predisposition of Europeans to suffer from sclerosis, Alzheimer's and diabetes
Prehistory is largely a mystery. Without writing, he has left no stories, only ruins, dust and bones. But events large ...
Hans Keirstead, neuroscientist: “The immune system is an enigma, we understand almost nothing of its diversity”
Within each human being there is an army of cells, tissues and organs that guard the body from external threats. ...