TagsTagsAn international group of researchers has made a fascinating discovery in the Denisova cave in southern Siberia: a previously unknown human-like creature that coexisted with Neanderthals and homo sapiens in Eurasia, and interbred with us. Click to enlarge Video More at Spiegel Online: The Denisovan Code: Researchers Decipher DNA of Mysterious Human Ancestor. ...
The huge scientific news of the week: Scientists Create First Self-Replicating Synthetic Life. Man-made DNA has booted up a cell for the first time. In a feat that is the culmination of two and a half years of tests and adjustments, researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute inserted artificial genetic ...
The University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learning Center has a very cool animated zooming thingie that graphically illustrates the differences in scale between common objects and microscopic objects like cells and viruses, all the way down to a carbon atom: Cell Size and Scale.
Genetic researchers are making ground-breaking—and possibly life-saving—discoveries about the 1918 flu pandemic. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly — a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia. ... Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin ...
A fascinating discovery by scientists investigating the mammalian genome: Mysterious DNA Found to Survive Eons of Evolution. Scientists have discovered mystery snippets of mammal DNA that have survived eons of evolution and yet have no apparent purpose. The finding reveals just how much we don’t know about the secrets hidden ...
David Brown has a good piece in the Washington Post’s Science section, on the remnants of extinct viruses discovered in the genome—the results of evolutionary warfare between viral invaders and human genes: In Our Genes, Old Fossils Take On New Roles. Over the past 15 years, scientists have been comparing ...