Carl Zimmer's new book She Has Her Mother’s Laugh makes the subject of genes and heredity accessible to non-scientists. It covers many subjects, such as royal inbreeding, eugenics, mitochondrial DNA vs. chromosomal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/07/08/The-Weird-Ever-Evolving-Story-of-DNA/Evolution depends on random mutations to slowly ch... ...universities tells of findings from the sequenced genomes of woolly mammoths, a Columbian mammoth, straight... ...t Coast.The ability to sequence all those extinct genomes is a story in itself. Read more about the study a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/02/26/Ancient-Elephants-Were-Totally-Down-With-Interbreeding/For a long time, both scientists and the general p... ...ff at the University of Pennsylvania, studied the genomes of over a thousand volunteers from ten ethnic gro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/10/12/The-Ancient-Origins-of-Both-Light-and-Dark-Skin/We have been learning a lot about Neanderthals in... ...had DNA good enough to identify variations in the genome . But now there is another- a Neanderthal woman fo... ...atia who died 52,000 years ago has yielded a full genome to study. Scientists named her Vindija 33.19. And... ...h immediate family members....
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/10/07/New-Neanderthal-Genome-Yields-Data-on-Human-Interbreeding/You’ve probably heard that the humans and ch... ...ole story of genetics or a certain species’ genome . After all, humans and chimpanzees don’t ev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/06/15/Are-We-Really-99-Chimp/Genetic archaeology is taking us into knowledge we... ...icist David Reich and his team have sequenced the genomes of Neanderthals and Denisovans more clearly and a... ...mpare human DNA over time. When they compared the genomes of those ancient human populations to those of re... ...lations we have yet to di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/19/Our-Ancestors-Bred-with-Neandertals-Denisovans-and-Mystery-Humans/We've learned that dinosaur DNA from millions of y... ...urther and further back as the art and science of genome sequencing advances. The oldest genome sequenced so far is from a leg bone of a horse an... ...00,000 years ago!"We knew that sequencing ancient genomes as old as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/06/27/Worlds-Oldest-Genome-Sequenced-from-an-Ancient-Horse/Psst! Don't panic, but you've got sleeper... ...you: viruses that have integrated their genome into human DNA. No big deal, you say, s... ...what if we've got a few hitchhiking genes in our genome ? Actually, there's quite a bit of them:... ...genes, making up eight percent of th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/12/HIV-Virus-Awakens-Ancient-Viral-Gene-in-the-Human-Genome/When Craig Venter created a synthetic microbe, he inserted a passage from James Joyce. Guess who's upset? Joyce's estate, claiming copyright infringement:In order to distinguish their synthetic DNA from that naturally pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/19/worlds-first-synthetic-microbe-accused-of-copyright-infringement-by-james-joyces-estate/A French-led research team has sequenced the DNA of Theobroma cacao, a tree used in making chocolate. Specifically, they ascertained the genetic code of one type that is used to make gourmet chocolate. This development...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/28/chocolate-genome-sequenced/
