“Language is a virus,” said William S. Burroughs. Now, Science Daily reports that researchers at Altos Labs-Cambridge Institute of Science have found that intelligence… Read the rest “Ancient viruses gave us our brains.”
Health Day reports on a new DNA scan that reveals to you (and doctors, and who knows who else) just how likely you are to come down with 10 common ailments, including atrial fibrillation, obesity,… Read the rest “Gene test reveals your likelihood of getting 10 common illnesses”
The American College of Rheumatology publishes a study about a new way to treat a famously slippery autoimmune disease, using CAR-T therapy to successfully put lupus in remission:
… Read the rest “A white-blood-cell genetic therapy can cure lupus.”Systemic
Harvard genetic researchers have struck on a novel way to restore hearing loss from damage and old age … with gene therapy that regenerated hair cells in the inner ear:
… Read the rest “New hair to heal hearing”A research team
BBC reports on a very, very cold case that’s been solved. A body found during roadwork, extending a highway between Cambridge and Huntington, England, has been conclusively identified… Read the rest “Solving the mystery of a 2,000-year-old body”
Defector, mostly a sports-and-social-commentary outlet, asks a scientific question: We’re now at a point, genetics-wise, where we’re ready to make de-extinction a real… Read the rest “What will it mean to bring extinct animals back?”
Stat covers a medicine-making strategy right out of Jurassic Park, with a UPenn researcher named Cesar de la Fuente, who is looking for protein-chains called peptides in the fossilized… Read the rest “Fossil antibiotics”
Science News brings home the bacon for humans needing kidney transplants, with news of a Chinese research team that has successfully grown a “humanized” kidney (an organ … Read the rest “Human(-ish) kidneys grown in pig embryos.”
New York Times rewrites human prehistory with a genetic study that replaces the tree of life – a diagram of human origins with one trunk growing out of one spot in the continent before… Read the rest “Out of Africa, yes, but all over Africa and not all at once.”
An image of the machine that builds our bodies, bit by bit.
From the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, located at www.genome.gov – though … Read the rest “Science Art: DNA Double Helix, by the National Human Genome Research Institute”
The National Science Foundation follows researchers taking a second look at “junk” DNA – the genes that don’t seem to do anything and instead just sit in a genome… Read the rest “Butterfly wing-patterns come from ancient DNA, switched around by junk.”
Science magazine reveals the single gene change that gave Homo sapiens sapiens the edge in brain matter over Homo sapiens neanderthalensis:
… Read the rest “Genetic finding shows how modern humans grew more brain cells than Neanderthals.”[Wieland Huttner, a Max Planck Institute neurobiologist,]
Science Daily reports on an Italian study that found something in common between human brains and the brains of two different species of the unusually intelligent invertebrate the octopus… Read the rest “Octopus brains and human brains have “jumping genes” in common.”
BBC reports on a study reassembling the genome of a man and woman preserved for centuries under the ash of Pompeii, and what the ancient DNA can teach us today:
… Read the rest “Reading the DNA from Pompeii”The two people were first discovered
Science News takes us back 4,500 years to ancient Syria, where domesticated donkeys and wild asses called “hemippes” were bred together for war – as the earliest know… Read the rest “The first hybrid humans ever bred was a kunga.”
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