Scientific American brings us a baby step closer to understanding what a bunch of strange DNA – stuff that doesn’t directly shape our cells – shared by all vertebrates… Read the rest “Mystery DNA has something to do with our brains.”
Popular Science checks the dental records to get to the cause of a mysterious sickness that killed up to 15 million people in only three years:
… Read the rest “500-year-old teeth reveal an unimaginably deadly epidemic.”Red spots appeared on the skin, accompanied
Science looks at the mystery of when the first Americans arrived over the land bridge of Beringia, and have found some interesting clues in an ancient Alaskan infant’s DNA:
… Read the rest “Ancient Americans came all at once – or so a baby’s DNA suggests.”The genome
Nature has more on Navajo leaders – in charge of the second-largest Native American group in the U.S. – possibly ending 15 years of forbidding genetic studies on their people… Read the rest “Navajo nation might just let geneticists study them after all.”
New Scientist reports with hope for celiac-disease sufferers on a new breed of wheat that’s genetically modified not to produce inflammation-causing gluten:
… Read the rest “GMO wheat is gluten free. (Hard choices, right?)”Gluten is the general
Science magazine mulls over new research showing how CRISPR gene editing successfully got rid of PERVs – porcine endogenous retroviruses – and made it that much easier to … Read the rest “Gene editing brings pig-to-human organ transplants one step closer.”
Nature has the story of an international team led by Portland-based reproductive biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov, who used CRISPR gene-editing to erase a potentially fatal heart ailment… Read the rest “We’ve edited the genes of human embryos now.”
Popular Science explains what it takes to encode a short movie using CRISPR gene-editing technology:
… Read the rest “Geneticists record a short film on DNA. No, literally ON the DNA.”Using the gene editing technique CRISPR, they encoded a series of images and a GIF into
Science reports on a group of researchers who recreated an extinct cousin of smallpox – one of the deadliest and most-weaponized diseases on Earth – by using simple techniques… Read the rest “Recreating deadly diseases with mail-order DNA: Here’s how.”
Nature examines a tree that was alive in the time of Napoleon, yet has DNA that’s remarkably free of the usual damage of aging:
… Read the rest “Very old oak; pretty young genes.”Each time a cell divides, mutations can arise because
Popular Science is trying to figure out if you can teach a robin to sing like a swallow, or a warbler to tweet like a canary… and, as far as researchers David Wheatcroft & Anna Qvarnström… Read the rest “Birds’ songs are in their genes.”
Nature tries to solve a nearly intractable chicken-and-egg problem for evolutionary biologists. Which is the oldest kind of animal, a sponge or a comb jelly? They’re both simple… Read the rest “Which came first, the sponge or the jelly? (We might have an answer.)”
Science looks at skulls from Eastern China that appear to be the remains of the little-known Denisovan prehistoric people:
… Read the rest “We might have found some more archaic Denisovan people in China.”Since their discovery in 2010, the extinct ice age humans called
My old dog was a basset. And now there’s a bulldog in my house. I’m not sure how dogs happen, but they do.
This is what these breeds (pretty “over-bred” breeds) look… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 20. – Skeletons of the cross between the English bulldog and bassethound showing contrast in leg length…, 1941”
SONG: “Blood is Family”.
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SOURCE: “Small Island, Big Experiment,” FiveThirtyEight Science, Oct 2016, as used in the post “Florida Keys… Read the rest “SONG: Blood is Family”
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